Bug#837189: ITP: ne10 -- ARM neon (SIMD) library
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Wookey <wookey@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.
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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.
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