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Larrabee will support SSE or not?

maa1
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‎09-01-2009 10:50 AM
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Larrabee will be compatible with SSE/SSE2/SSE3/SSE4 code or not?

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TimP
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‎09-01-2009 01:59 PM
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Larrabee will be compatible with SSE/SSE2/SSE3/SSE4 code or not?

A different instruction set
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levicki
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‎09-01-2009 03:20 PM
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A different instruction set

What kind of answer is this?

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srimks
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‎09-01-2009 08:49 PM
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What kind of answer is this?

God and none other than Tim knows?
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Matthias_Kretz
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‎09-02-2009 01:11 AM
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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
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