On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 22:32, Mathieu Blondel <math...@mblondel.org> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Sturla Molden <stu...@molden.no> wrote: >> Mathieu Blondel skrev: >>> Hello, >>> >>> About one year ago, a high-level, objected-oriented SIMD API was added >>> to Mono. For example, there is a class Vector4f for vectors of 4 >>> floats and this class implements methods such as basic operators, >>> bitwise operators, comparison operators, min, max, sqrt, shuffle >>> directly using SIMD operations. >> I think you are confusing SIMD with Intel's MMX/SSE instruction set. > > OK, I should have said "Object-oriented SIMD API that is implemented > using hardware SIMD instructions".
No, I think you're right. Using "SIMD" to refer to numpy-like operations is an abuse of the term not supported by any outside community that I am aware of. Everyone else uses "SIMD" to describe hardware instructions, not the application of a single syntactical element of a high level language to a non-trivial data structure containing lots of atomic data elements. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion