Containers

Detailed Description

For some problems, standard (or third-party) containers can be used. Simply use a value_type of Vc::Vector<T>. However, this requires:

• You actually have control over the data structures and can design/modify them for easy vectorization usage.
• The access patterns are non-random. Because random access to individual value_type elements is going to be a pain (two subscripts, first into the container, then into the Vc::Vector)

Therefore, for some problems you need to work with containers over elements of non-Vector type (e.g. of type double or a struct). Vc provides some help:

• Vc::vector
• Vc::array
• Vc::span
• Vc::Common::Memory (discouraged)
• Vc::Common::InterleavedMemoryWrapper

Classes
struct	array< T, Size >
	This is std::array with additional subscript operators supporting gather and scatter operations. More...
class	InterleavedMemoryWrapper< S, V >
	Wraps a pointer to memory with convenience functions to access it via vectors. More...
class	Memory< V, Size1, Size2, InitPadding >
	A helper class for fixed-size two-dimensional arrays. More...
class	Memory< V, Size, 0u, InitPadding >
	A helper class to simplify usage of correctly aligned and padded memory, allowing both vector and scalar access. More...
class	Memory< V, 0u, 0u, true >
	A helper class that is very similar to Memory<V, Size> but with dynamically allocated memory and thus dynamic size. More...

Typedefs
template<typename T , typename Allocator = std::allocator<T>>
using	vector = Common::AdaptSubscriptOperator< std::vector< T, Allocator > >
	An adapted std::vector container with an additional subscript operator which implements gather and scatter operations. More...
template<typename T , ptrdiff_t Extent = dynamic_extent>
using	span = Common::AdaptSubscriptOperator< Common::span< T, Extent > >
	An adapted std::span with additional subscript operators supporting gather and scatter operations. More...

Functions
template<typename Container , typename T >
constexpr auto	makeContainer (std::initializer_list< T > list) -> decltype(make_container_helper< Container, T >::help(list))
	Construct a container of Vc vectors from a std::initializer_list of scalar entries. More...

Typedef Documentation

vector

using vector = Common::AdaptSubscriptOperator<std::vector<T, Allocator> >

An adapted std::vector container with an additional subscript operator which implements gather and scatter operations.

The std::vector documentation applies.

Example:

struct Point {
  float x, y;
};
Vc::vector<Point> data;
data.resize(100);
// initialize values in data
float_v::IndexType indexes = ...;  // values between 0-99
float_v x = data[indexes][&Point::x];
float_v y = data[indexes][&Point::y];

Definition at line 55 of file vector.

span

using span = Common::AdaptSubscriptOperator<Common::span<T, Extent> >

An adapted std::span with additional subscript operators supporting gather and scatter operations.

The std::span documentation applies.

Example:

struct Point {
  float x, y;
};
Point data[100];
// initialize values in data

Vc::span<Point, 100> view(data);
float_v::IndexType indexes = ...;  // values between 0-99
float_v x = view[indexes][&Point::x];
float_v y = view[indexes][&Point::y];

Definition at line 635 of file span.h.

Function Documentation

makeContainer()

constexpr auto Vc::makeContainer

(

std::initializer_list< T >

list

)

-> decltype(make_container_helper<Container, T>::help(list))

Construct a container of Vc vectors from a std::initializer_list of scalar entries.

Template Parameters

Container	The container type to construct.
T	The scalar type to use for the initializer_list.

Parameters

list

An initializer list of arbitrary size. The type of the entries is important! If you pass a list of integers you will get a container filled with Vc::int_v objects. If, instead, you want to have a container of Vc::float_v objects, be sure the include a period (.) and the 'f' postfix in the literals. Alternatively, you can pass the type as second template argument to makeContainer.

Returns

Returns a container of the requested class filled with the minimum number of SIMD vectors to hold the values in the initializer list. If the number of values in list does not match the number of values in the returned container object, the remaining values in the returned object will be zero-initialized.

Example:

auto data = Vc::makeContainer<std::vector<float_v>>({ 1.f, 2.f, 3.f, 4.f, 5.f });
// data.size() == 5 if float_v::Size == 1 (i.e. Vc_IMPL=Scalar)
// data.size() == 2 if float_v::Size == 4 (i.e. Vc_IMPL=SSE)
// data.size() == 1 if float_v::Size == 8 (i.e. Vc_IMPL=AVX)

Definition at line 137 of file makeContainer.h.