Altivec instruction set definition

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Instruction-set architecture vector extensions or vector instructions are SIMD instructions. SIMD stands for “Single Instruction stream, Multiple Data PA-RISC was the first instruction set architecture to introduce multimedia extensions, MAX-1 (Multimedia Acceleration extensions), in products programming model for use with the AltiVec instruction set. (Programming Environments Manual)—Describes resources defined by the PowerPC architecture. AltiVec Instruction Set/Operations/Predicates Cross-Reference An application binary interface (ABI) defining low-level coding conventions. Profile generation and alignment on IBM Altivec^TM instruction set. Definition in file DynProgr_altivec.h. Function Documentation. void*Often referred to as AltiVec or VMX, the vector extension to the PowerPC architecture provides an additional instruction set for performing vector and PLX: An Instruction Set Architecture and Testbed for Multimedia Information Processing a new definition of predication, and an innovative set of subword