Returning Control to the Programmer: SIMD Intrinsics for Virtual Machines.

The article discusses single instruction, multiple data (SIMD) units within interpreted software languages and the use of same to simplify computer programs. The interpreted language Java and others reportedly have failed to evolve sufficiently to properly use modern computer processors. Thus, SIMDs...

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Published in:	Communications of the ACM Vol. 54; no. 4; pp. 38 - 44
Main Authors:	PARRI, JONATHAN, SHAPIRO, DANIEL, BOLIC, MIODRAG, GROZA, VOICU
Format:	Article
Published:	Association for Computing Machinery Apr2011
Subjects:	Microprocessor design & construction Programming languages Java programming language Computer research Multicore processors Computer programming
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