Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Wookey <woo...@debian.org> Package name : ne10 Version : 1.2.1 Upstream Author : ARM Limited and Contributors URL : http://projectne10.github.io/Ne10/doc/index.html License : BSD Programming Lang: C, assembler Description : ARM neon (SIMD) library
Ne10 is a library of the most commonly used functions that have been heavily optimized for ARM-based CPUs with NEON (ARM's SIMD instructions). These functions provide consistent, well tested behavior for use in applications without having to write assembly. Ne10 is usable as a shared or static library. . Both 32 and 64-bit variants are supported. (ARM v7, 32-bit, armhf, and ARM v8, 64-bit, aarch64/arm64) I'm packaging this because someone pointed out that it wasn't available in debian, but would be useful. That seemed a reasonable point, and I'm in a packaging frame of mind at the moment, so I thought I could fix that fairly easily. This library does only support Arm, but optimised SIMD code is fundamentally arch-specific. I am not aare of a general SIMD library that supplies functions like this as altivec, neon, SSE etc, as appropriate for the arch for multiple arches, although obviously such a thing would be nice. In the absence of such a thing ne10 seems likely to be useful to some developers.