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0 pointsthoi23u4o34342y ago0 comments

In fairness, "SIMD support" is not exactly "the compiler can reduce code to AVX instructions" but more like "you can now write non-portable custom assembly-like code to make your code faster".

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ravi-delia2y ago

That's what I mean by "willing to hack"! Getting the compiler to use SIMD instructions is actually pretty easy- you just specify where to use them and let it handle them. Then you pinky promise that your array really is made of floats and turn safety off.

rice7th2y ago

Still better than no SIMD at all imo

koito172y ago

Yup. I used to use Clozure CL all the time, but since the code I write tends to involve lots of number crunching, SB-SIMD and Loopus are indispensible.

Even before SB-SIMD, SBCL has always seemed like the best Common Lisp implementation for any arithmetic. Or at least this seems to be case when you benchmark CCL against it :)

smegsicle2y ago

but i assume a somewhat nicer interface than the internal VOP intrinsic stuff that sbcl has always had

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