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So, What Are We Doing?

• Fall 1996, EE468 built a really crude SIMD-to-MMX compiler
• Now, SIMD-to-any-SWAR compilers:
  • Will be full public domain releases
  • Small HLL designed to build functions callable from C
  • HLL independent of target, except for parallelism width and efficiency variations
  • Arbitrary precision integer fields,
    1-bit, 2-bit, 3-bit, ..., 32-bit
  • SWAR code-generation target libraries
  • Manufacturers & applications researchers becoming involved
• Later, SWAR across SMP and/or PAPERS clusters....