Thomas Schaub - Introduction to SIMD

Dear C++ Community Berlin,

this time our meetup will be hosted by Teufel and we have Thomas Schaub speaking about SIMD operations with C++. The meeting start at 7 p.m. and the talk starts at 8 p.m. Teufel can only host 70 people. So, RSVP as soon as possible.

Abstract:

Ubiquitous processors nowadays support so called SIMD (Single Instruction, Multiple Data) instructions. SIMD instructions have the potential to enable performance gains by operating on vectors instead of scalar values, but are poorly integrated in most main stream programming languages. This talk explains when and how SIMD can be used. This includes a short overview of the current state of consumer hardware, common techniques and best practices to SIMDfy code, and tools that aid in the process.