volk-rs

Rust bindings for the volk library.

https://github.com/ThomasHabets/volk-rs

What is VOLK

VOLK is the Vector-Optimized Library of Kernels. It is a library that contains kernels of hand-written SIMD code for different mathematical operations. Since each SIMD architecture can be very different and no compiler has yet come along to handle vectorization properly or highly efficiently, VOLK approaches the problem differently.

For each architecture or platform that a developer wishes to vectorize for, a new proto-kernel is added to VOLK. At runtime, VOLK will select the correct proto-kernel. In this way, the users of VOLK call a kernel for performing the operation that is platform/architecture agnostic. This allows us to write portable SIMD code.

What is this crate

This crate adds safe Rust bindings for volk. It also provides unsafe wrappers, to minimize overhead for the adventurous.

Supported kernels in this Rust wrapper

Kernels are currently added on demand. A TODO is to just go through and add them all.