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- Subject: Re: [eigen] NEON PacketMath.h questions
- From: Josh Bleecher Snyder <josharian@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2012 10:03:05 -0700
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>> One could also force the use of the vmla instruction via inline
>> assembly. This would require distinguishing multiply+add (return a
>> value) from multiply+accumulate (modify one of the inputs).
>> Multiply+accumulate is extremely common in gemm/gemv and probably
>> worth optimizing for. I'm willing to take a crack at adding such a
>> method (pmacc? pmadd_inplace? pfma?), although I might need a few
>> pointers -- I'm new to both C++ templating and Eigen -- and would
>> probably need help with SSE/AltiVec. So before I start on it: Is there
>> interest in such an addition?
>
> Don't worry, when we do c = pmadd(a,b,c), then the compiler is smart
> enough to recognize that 'c' is on both sides and that we are doing an
> accumulation. No need for a specific path here.
Yep, totally. I was just contemplating this as a means to work around
the current compiler shortcomings when it comes to NEON. I'll go
pester the compiler folks about it instead, though -- that's the right
fix. :)
>> (3)
>>
>> Is there a good way to run the existing Eigen unit tests on an iOS or
>> Android device? (E.g. is there an Xcode-friendly test wrapper? Is
>> there interest in one?) I don't have -- or intend to acquire -- a
>> beagle board, so testing NEON changes is currently a bit manual and ad
>> hoc.
>
> There is clearly a need for a simple way to test Eigen on iOS.
IIRC, cmake can generate Xcode projects, so that's a start, but it
takes extra work to make tests that run on a device instead of the
simulator. Anyway, will see what I can do...
-josh