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authorJulian Taylor <juliantaylor108@gmail.com>2016-09-25 17:16:45 +0200
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2016-09-25 17:16:45 +0200
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Merge pull request #7980 from juliantaylor/avx-runtime
ENH: Add ability to runtime select ufunc loops, add AVX2 integer loops
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@@ -311,6 +311,10 @@ bugs where such dtypes were not handled properly. In particular, changed
``ndarray.__new__`` to not implicitly convert ``dtype('S0')`` to
``dtype('S1')`` (and likewise for unicode) when creating new arrays.
+Integer ufuncs vectorized with AVX2
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+If the cpu supports it at runtime the basic integer ufuncs now use AVX2
+instructions. This feature is currently only available when compiled with GCC.
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