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Gabriel Wang
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SVE/SVE2 is a new SIMD extension for AArch64. Compared to NEON, SVE/SVE2 brings the following benefits that are good for SDL projects: - Lane prediction: we don't have to treat the tail part of a stride separately when the width is n times the hardware vector size - Although the performance is almost no difference from NEON when the hardware vector size is 128bits, when the hardware provides a longer vector size, e.g. 256, 512, ... 2048, we can enjoy the large performance gain without modifying the source code or recompiling a library. The functional correctness is validated in a dedicated [qemu project](https://github.com/GorgonMeducer/aarch64_qemu_mac_template/tree/SDL-SVE2-Acceleration-Validation). The performance is tested on [Radxa Orion 6 N](https://radxa.com/products/orion/o6n/), which provides 4x A720 and 4x A520 processors. Since the vector size is 128 bits, which is the same as NEON, the performance is almost the same (or no worse than) the NEON acceleration.
Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL for short) is a cross-platform library designed to make it easy to write multi-media software, such as games and emulators.
You can find the latest release and additional information at: https://www.libsdl.org/
Installation instructions and a quick introduction is available in INSTALL.md
This library is distributed under the terms of the zlib license, available in LICENSE.txt.
Enjoy!
Sam Lantinga (slouken@libsdl.org)