Introducing the Intel® Integrated Performance Primitives

Intel® Integrated Performance Primitives (Intel® IPP) is a software library that provides a broad range of functionality. This functionality includes general signal and image processing, computer vision, data compression, cryptography, string manipulation, audio processing, video coding, realistic rendering and 3D data processing. It also includes more sophisticated primitives for construction of audio, video and speech codecs such as MP3 (MPEG-1 Audio, Layer 3), MPEG-4, H.264, H.263, JPEG, JPEG2000, JPEG XR, GSM-AMR, G.723.

By supporting a variety of data types and layouts for each function, the Intel IPP library delivers a rich set of options for developers to choose from when designing and optimizing an application.

To speed up performance, Intel IPP functions are optimized to use all benefits of Intel® architecture processors. In addition most of the Intel IPP functions do not use complicated data structures, which helps reduce overall execution overhead.

Optimization Notice

The Intel® Integrated Performance Primitives (Intel® IPP) library contains functions that are more highly optimized for Intel microprocessors than for other microprocessors. While the functions in the Intel® IPP library offer optimizations for both Intel and Intel-compatible microprocessors, depending on your code and other factors, you will likely get extra performance on Intel microprocessors.

While the paragraph above describes the basic optimization approach for the Intel® IPP library as a whole, the library may or may not be optimized to the same degree for non-Intel microprocessors for optimizations that are not unique to Intel microprocessors. These optimizations include Intel® Streaming SIMD Extensions 2 (Intel® SSE2), Intel® Streaming SIMD Extensions 3 (Intel® SSE3), and Supplemental Streaming SIMD Extensions 3 (Intel® SSSE3) instruction sets and other optimizations. Intel does not guarantee the availability, functionality, or effectiveness of any optimization on microprocessors not manufactured by Intel. Microprocessor-dependent optimizations in this product are intended for use with Intel microprocessors.

Intel recommends that you evaluate other library products to determine which best meets your requirements.


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