On April, 5th 202 Craig Hunter has released an article on O'Reilly Network about the AltiVec unit of the G4-PPC processor.
In this article he describes in a general and simple way the advantages of the SIMD programming (Single Instruction Multiple Data) against the computing with single values. He also shows the AltiVec support of the gcc with short examples like vector addition with vec_add().
It also contains information about the performance of AltiVec code against code without AltiVec usage.
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