LALSIMD.h

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/*
 * Copyright (C) 2015 Jolien Creighton, Reinhard Prix, Karl Wette
 *
 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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 */
 
#ifndef LALSIMD_H
#define LALSIMD_H
 
#if defined(__cplusplus)
extern "C" {
#endif
 
/**
 * \defgroup LALSIMD_h Header LALSIMD.h
 * \ingroup lal_std
 * \author Karl Wette
 * \brief SIMD extension detection and runtime selection for LALSuite
 *
 * ### Synopsis ###
 * \code
 * #include <lal/LALSIMD.h>
 *
 * if (LAL_HAVE_SSE_RUNTIME()) {
 *   perform_sse_magic(out, in, ...);
 * }
 * \endcode
 */
/** @{ */
 
/**
 * SIMD instruction sets this module can detect
 */
typedef enum tagLAL_SIMD_ISET {
 
  LAL_SIMD_ISET_GEN,            /**< GENeric floating-point unit */
  LAL_SIMD_ISET_SSE,            /**< SSE (Streaming SIMD Extensions) */
  LAL_SIMD_ISET_SSE2,           /**< SSE version 2 */
  LAL_SIMD_ISET_SSE3,           /**< SSE version 3 */
  LAL_SIMD_ISET_SSSE3,          /**< Supplemental SSE version 3 */
  LAL_SIMD_ISET_SSE4_1,         /**< SSE version 4.1 */
  LAL_SIMD_ISET_SSE4_2,         /**< SSE version 4.2 */
  LAL_SIMD_ISET_AVX,            /**< AVX (Advanced Vector Extensions) */
  LAL_SIMD_ISET_AVX2,           /**< AVX version 2 */
 
  LAL_SIMD_ISET_MAX
} LAL_SIMD_ISET;
 
/**
 * Return true if the executing machine supports the given instruction set
 */
int XLALHaveSIMDInstructionSet(LAL_SIMD_ISET iset);
 
/**
 * Return the name of a given instruction set as a string
 */
const char *XLALSIMDInstructionSetName(LAL_SIMD_ISET iset);
 
/** \name Convenience macros for SIMD runtime selection */
/** @{ */
#define LAL_HAVE_SSE_RUNTIME()          (XLALHaveSIMDInstructionSet(LAL_SIMD_ISET_SSE))
#define LAL_HAVE_SSE2_RUNTIME()         (XLALHaveSIMDInstructionSet(LAL_SIMD_ISET_SSE2))
#define LAL_HAVE_SSE3_RUNTIME()         (XLALHaveSIMDInstructionSet(LAL_SIMD_ISET_SSE3))
#define LAL_HAVE_SSSE3_RUNTIME()        (XLALHaveSIMDInstructionSet(LAL_SIMD_ISET_SSSE3))
#define LAL_HAVE_SSE4_1_RUNTIME()       (XLALHaveSIMDInstructionSet(LAL_SIMD_ISET_SSE4_1))
#define LAL_HAVE_SSE4_2_RUNTIME()       (XLALHaveSIMDInstructionSet(LAL_SIMD_ISET_SSE4_2))
#define LAL_HAVE_AVX_RUNTIME()          (XLALHaveSIMDInstructionSet(LAL_SIMD_ISET_AVX))
#define LAL_HAVE_AVX2_RUNTIME()         (XLALHaveSIMDInstructionSet(LAL_SIMD_ISET_AVX2))
/** @} */
 
/** @} */
 
#if defined(__cplusplus)
}
#endif
 
#endif /* LALSIMD_H */