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ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS)
A language for shading and lighting calculations
SIGGRAPH '90 Proceedings of the 17th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Parallel loop transformation techniques for vector-based multiprocessor systems
Parallel loop transformation techniques for vector-based multiprocessor systems
Exploiting superword level parallelism with multimedia instruction sets
PLDI '00 Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 2000 conference on Programming language design and implementation
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International Journal of Parallel Programming - Special issue on instruction-level parallelism and parallelizing compilation, Part 1
Implementing database operations using SIMD instructions
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Conversion of control dependence to data dependence
POPL '83 Proceedings of the 10th ACM SIGACT-SIGPLAN symposium on Principles of programming languages
Superword-Level Parallelism in the Presence of Control Flow
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Proceedings of the International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization
Phasers: a unified deadlock-free construct for collective and point-to-point synchronization
Proceedings of the 22nd annual international conference on Supercomputing
Outer-loop vectorization: revisited for short SIMD architectures
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IEEE Transactions on Computers
CGO '11 Proceedings of the 9th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization
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Nowadays, SIMD hardware is omnipresent in computers. Nonetheless, many software projects make hardly use of SIMD instructions: Applications are usually written in general-purpose languages like C++. However, general-purpose languages only provide poor abstractions for SIMD programming enforcing an error-prone, assembly-like programming style. An alternative are data-parallel languages. They indeed offer more convenience to target SIMD architectures but introduce their own set of problems. In particular, programmers are often unwilling to port their working C++ code to a new programming language. In this paper we present Sierra: a SIMD extension for C++. It combines the full power of C++ with an intuitive and effective way to address SIMD hardware. With Sierra, the programmer can write efficient, portable and maintainable code. It is particularly easy to enhance existing code to run efficiently on SIMD machines. In contrast to prior approaches, the programmer has explicit control over the involved vector lengths.