On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 12:37 PM, Tim Blechmann
Hi, i want to develop boost.arm or boost.neon library so that boost is implemented on ARM.
Hi,
Boost works well on arm, so nothing should be really developed. But if you ate talking about SIMD for ARM, that you shall take a look at Boost.SIMD and maybe propose library developer your help.
from https://github.com/MetaScale/nt2/issues/180: "It is quite unsure at this stage whether NEON will be provided as an open-source module"
Even if it's not openly provided by developers of NT2, nothing prevents you from implementing it yourself.
yes and no ... if the nt2 devs submit boost.simd to become an official part of boost, it is the question if they'd merge an independently developed arm/neon support, if it conflicts with their business interests ... the situation is a bit unfortunate ...
I realize that it may be inconvenient for them to expose their implementation of NEON module (if there is one) for various reasons. But as long as Boost.SIMD is licensed under BSL, anyone can use and improve this code if he likes to, even if it means implementing functionality similar to the proprietary solution. It doesn't necessarily mean that the open solution will take the market share of the proprietary one.