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Old 06-23-2005, 09:33 AM   #1
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Is it possible to use intel MMX/SSE/SSE2 with lookup tables?


Suppose I have a lookup table of small size (say 256 byte elements, i.e. uint8_t ltable[size]), and a byte array (uint8_t *array). I want to change each byte of array to the value in corresponding element of lookup table, i.e.
Code:
uint8_t *p;
for (p = array; p < array + array_size; p ++)
   *p = ltable [*p];
but in asm using mmx/sse/sse2 so that I could perform many lookups in the same time (instead of byte-granularity of the above C sample). Is it possible?
 
Old 06-24-2005, 03:30 AM   #2
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I never used mmx or sse/2 myself, but why don't you download
http://www.intel.com/design/intarch/manuals/243191.htm
and inspect the x86 (mmx, at least) instruction set yourself?

HTH
 
Old 06-24-2005, 03:50 AM   #3
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Well, I already have. But there are no special instruction for parallel table lookup. So I asked - is it possible to do so using some tricks?
 
  


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