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Portable SIMD Project Group

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Non-API project-group
Dominant language
Rust
Stars
178
Forks
28
Avg merge
15m
Merged PRs (30d)
1

Description

Summary

Produce a portable SIMD API, exposed through a new std::simd (and core::simd) module in the standard library in the same manner as stdarch. The output of this project group will be the finalization of RFC 2948 and stabilization of std::simd.

Info

What is this issue?

This issue represents an active project group. It is meant to be used for
the group to post updates to the libs team (and others) in a lightweight
fashion. Please do not use the comments here for discussion, that should be kept
in the Zulip stream (discussion comments here will be marked as off-topic).

Contributor guide

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First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start by reading CHARTER.md in the project-portable-simd repository and RFC 2948 to understand the group's scope and stabilization goals. Review the portable SIMD project repository and its Zulip stream for current work; done means finalizing the RFC and stabilizing the std::simd and core::simd modules.

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Assessment

Tech stack
rust
Domain
api, performance
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
15/100

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