Christian Henning wrote:
Hi John,
I don't want to release Gautam's full proposal without his permission: I'm CC'ing him so he can respond directly, but I believe he's tied up in exams until the end of the month.
I can wait no problem.
Was there something specific you were interested in?
I'm very interested in the SIMD part. What functions of the math toolkit would be targeted? Also, will this project create facilities that I can use SIMD hardware with my own calculations? For example, I would very much like to do ray/box intersection tests by using SSE. Would that be possible after the SOC?
Maybe :-) It's not the main focus of the project, I believe the intent was to use the Intel SSE intrinsics directly rather than abstracting them, since these appear to be available on all Intel based platforms. Although some other platforms also support vectorising operations, they're predominantly for integer or 32-bit float operations which is less useful for our purposes (anyone know different?).
This project might be of interest to you, in case you didn't know about it:
Indeed, thanks! John.