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<h1 class="title">A Simple ispc Example</h1>
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<p>Here is a walkthrough of a simple example of using <tt class="docutils literal">ispc</tt> to
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compute an image of the Mandelbrot set. The full source code for this
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example is in the <tt class="docutils literal">examples/mandelbrot</tt> directory of
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example is in the <tt class="docutils literal">examples/cpu/mandelbrot</tt> directory of
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the <tt class="docutils literal">ispc</tt> distribution; below is a lightly modified version of
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that example. (For example, we have elided some of the details related
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to benchmarking and writing the final output image that are in the
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<p>
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Here is the start of the definition of the <tt class="docutils literal">mandelbrot_ispc()</tt>
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function that the <tt class="docutils literal">ispc</tt> compiler compiles. (This function is
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defined in the <tt class="docutils literal">mandelbrot.ispc</tt> file.) There are a four main
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defined in the <tt class="docutils literal">mandelbrot.ispc</tt> file.) There are four main
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things to notice here.
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<p>To compile this example, install the <tt class="docutils literal">ispc</tt> compiler in a
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directory that is in your <tt class="docutils literal">PATH</tt>, and run <tt class="docutils literal">make</tt> on Mac OS
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X or Linux, or build using the <tt class="docutils literal">mandelbrot.vcxproj</tt> build file
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with MSVC 2010. Note that the <tt class="docutils literal">ispc</tt> compiler generates regular
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directory that is in your <tt class="docutils literal">PATH</tt>, and run <tt class="docutils literal">make</tt> on macOS
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or Linux, or build using CMake on Windows. Note that the <tt class="docutils literal">ispc</tt> compiler generates regular
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object files that you can just link with object files compiled with C/C++
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compilers. (Here is the <a href="mandelbrot.txt">assembly language
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output</a> from compiling the <tt class="docutils literal">mandelbrot.ispc</tt> source file for
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<pre class="literal-block">
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% ./mandelbrot
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[mandelbrot ispc]: [58.570] million cycles
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[mandelbrot serial]: [335.005] millon cycles
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[mandelbrot serial]: [335.005] million cycles
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(5.72x speedup from ISPC)
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<p>Note that all of the exposition up until now has been related to
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harvesting the available parallelism from the SIMD unit in a single CPU
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core. To fully use the system's computational resources also requires
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parallelism across the CPU cores&mdash;modern CPUs may from two to ten or
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more processing cores, each of which has a SIMD vector unit.
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parallelism across the CPU cores&mdash;modern CPUs may have from eight to
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dozens of processing cores, each of which has a SIMD vector unit.
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<p> Thanks to the fact that <tt class="docutils literal">ispc</tt> cleanly inter-operates with
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functionality for launching concurrent tasks that <tt class="docutils literal">ispc</tt> offers.
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The <tt class="docutils literal">ispc</tt> language provides constructs for launching asynchronous
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tasks that can execute concurrently with the rest of the program; see the
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directory <tt class="docutils literal">examples/mandelbrot_tasks</tt> in the <tt class="docutils literal">ispc</tt>
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directory <tt class="docutils literal">examples/cpu/mandelbrot_tasks</tt> in the <tt class="docutils literal">ispc</tt>
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distribution to see how to parallelize across both cores and the SIMD
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units.
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