"vector" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Larrabee derives most of its number-crunching power from these vector units.
- They employ dedicated processors, called vector units, that can rapidly perform long strings of calculations.
- This is accomplished by having two 256 bit vector processing units in each core.
- The vector unit performs add/shift, multiply, divide and logical operations.
- For additional performance the vector units supported a special multiply-and-add instruction that could retire two results per clock cycle.
- Another difference is that the main scalar units of the processor ran at half the speed of the vector unit.
- This forced most programs to hit the high setup cost of the vector units, and generally the ones that did "work" were extreme examples.
- In the G4, up to eight simultaneous operations can execute in a single clock cycle in the vector unit.
- Then there's this otherwise very confused PC World article, where the writer obviously heard something about a 512-bit vector unit.
- In fact, from what I've heard, very few developers are using both vector units.
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