Simd<[T; N]>

Implementation of Rust RFC #2366: std::simd

This aims to be a 100% conforming implementation of Rust RFC 2366 for stabilization.

WARNING: this crate only supports the most recent nightly Rust toolchain.

Documentation

• API docs (master branch)
• Performance guide
• API docs (docs.rs)
• RFC2366 std::simd: - contains motivation, design rationale, discussion, etc.

Examples

Most of the examples come with both a scalar and a vectorized implementation.

• aobench
• fannkuch_redux
• matrix inverse
• mandelbrot
• n-body
• options_pricing
• spectral_norm
• triangle transform
• stencil
• vector dot product

Cargo features

• into_bits (default: disabled): enables FromBits/IntoBits trait implementations for the vector types. These allow reinterpreting the bits of a vector type as those of another vector type safely by just using the .into_bits() method.

• core_arch (default: disabled): enable this feature to recompile core::arch for the target-features enabled. packed_simd includes optimizations for some target feature combinations that are enabled by this feature. Note, however, that this is an unstable dependency, that rustc might break at any time.

• sleef-sys (default: disabled - x86_64 only): internally uses the SLEEF short-vector math library when profitable via the sleef-sys crate. SLEEF is licensed under the Boost Software License v1.0, an extremely permissive license, and can be statically linked without issues.

Performance

The following ISPC examples are also part of packed_simd's examples/ directory, where packed_simd+rayon are used to emulate ISPC's Single-Program-Multiple-Data (SPMD) programming model. The performance results on different hardware is shown in the readme.md of each example. The following table summarizes the performance ranges, where + means speed-up and - slowdown:

• aobench: [-1.02x, +1.53x],
• stencil: [+1.06x, +1.72x],
• mandelbrot: [-1.74x, +1.2x],
• options_pricing:
  • black_scholes: +1.0x
  • binomial_put: +1.4x

While SPMD is not the intended use case for packed_simd, it is possible to combine the library with rayon to poorly emulate ISPC's SPMD programming model in Rust. Writing performant code is not as straightforward as with ISPC, but with some care (e.g. see the Performance Guide) one can easily match and often out-perform ISPC's "default performance".

Platform support

The following table describes the supported platforms: build shows whether the library compiles without issues for a given target, while run shows whether the full testsuite passes on the target.

[*] most of the test suite passes correctly on these platform but there are correctness bugs open in the issue tracker.

[**] it is currently not easily possible to run these platforms on CI.

Machine code verification

The verify/ crate tests disassembles the portable packed vector APIs at run-time and compares the generated machine code against the desired one to make sure that this crate remains efficient.

License

This project is licensed under either of

• Apache License, Version 2.0 (LICENSE-APACHE)

• MIT License (LICENSE-MIT)

at your option.

Contributing

We welcome all people who want to contribute. Please see the contributing instructions for more information.

Contributions in any form (issues, pull requests, etc.) to this project must adhere to Rust's Code of Conduct.

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in packed_simd by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.