Minotaur: A SIMD-Oriented Synthesizing Superoptimizer [pdf]

Posted by luu 10/24/2024

Minotaur: A SIMD-Oriented Synthesizing Superoptimizer [pdf](users.cs.utah.edu)

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dang 10/28/2024|

(Reposts are fine after a year or so; links to past threads are just to satisfy extra-curious readers)

Avamander 10/29/2024|

What's currently the biggest obstacle in getting something like ffmpeg to build (from C) with comparable performance to the handcrafted ASM? Could a compiler for example do it if data structures were better-suitable for SIMD? Would it require a different language altogether?