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Introducing the Vector C

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This paper presents the vector C (VC) language, which is designed for the multimedia extensions included in all modern microprocessors. The paper discusses the language syntax, the implementation of its compiler and its use in developing multimedia applications. The goal was to provide programmers with the most natural way of using multimedia processing facilities in the C language. The VC language has been used to develop some of the most frequently used multimedia kernels. The experiments on these scientific and multimedia applications have yielded good performance improvements.

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  1. Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana, Tržaška cesta 25, 1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia

    Patricio Bulić & Veselko Guštin

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  1. Patricio Bulić
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  1. Faculdade de Engenharia da, Universidade do Porto, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, 4200-465, Porto, Portugal

    José M. L. M. Palma  & A. Augusto Sousa  & 

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Tennessee, 37996-1301, Knoxville, TN, USA

    Jack Dongarra

  3. Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos y Computación, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Camino de Vera, s/n, Apartado 22012, 46020, Valencia, Spain

    Vicente Hernández

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Bulić, P., Guštin, V. (2003). Introducing the Vector C. In: Palma, J.M.L.M., Sousa, A.A., Dongarra, J., Hernández, V. (eds) High Performance Computing for Computational Science — VECPAR 2002. VECPAR 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2565. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36569-9_41

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