Intel® ISA Extensions
Use hardware-based isolation and memory encryption to provide more code protection in your solutions.

Larrabee will support SSE or not?

maa1
Beginner
887 Views

Larrabee will be compatible with SSE/SSE2/SSE3/SSE4 code or not?

0 Kudos
4 Replies
TimP
Honored Contributor III
887 Views
Quoting - maa1

Larrabee will be compatible with SSE/SSE2/SSE3/SSE4 code or not?

A different instruction set
0 Kudos
levicki
Valued Contributor I
887 Views
Quoting - tim18
A different instruction set

What kind of answer is this?

0 Kudos
srimks
New Contributor II
887 Views
Quoting - Igor Levicki

What kind of answer is this?

God and none other than Tim knows?
0 Kudos
Matthias_Kretz
New Contributor I
887 Views
Quoting - maa1

Larrabee will be compatible with SSE/SSE2/SSE3/SSE4 code or not?


See here for the SIMD instructions Larrabee will provide: http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/prototype-primitives-guide/

You can guess how much sense it would make to support another (a lot less powerful) SIMD instruction set when there is no code that is binary compatible anyway.

BTW, if you want to write code that can use the SSE instructions on CPUs as well as the LRBni on Larrabee you should take a look at http://gitorious.org/vc
0 Kudos
Reply