The ease with which you were able to put that together is pretty amazing. On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 1:38 PM, Simon Kornblith <si...@simonster.com> wrote:
> Yichao, Oscar, and I were unhappy with the current state of vectorization > of operations involving complex numbers and other immutables so I decided > to do something about it. I'm pleased to announce StructsOfArrays.jl > <https://github.com/simonster/StructsOfArrays.jl>, which performs the > Array of Structures -> Structure of Arrays memory layout optimization > without requiring code changes. This alternative memory layout permits SIMD > optimizations for immutables for which such optimizations would not > otherwise be possible or profitable, either because of limitations of the > Julia codegen and LLVM optimizer or because of the type of the operations > performed. The benchmark in the README shows that StructsOfArrays can give > non-negligible speedups for simple operations involving arrays of complex > numbers. > > Simon >
