Introduction to Intel's valarray Implementation

The Intel® Compiler provides a high performance implementation of specialized one-dimensional valarray operations for the C++ standard STL valarray container.

The standard C++ valarray template consists of array/vector operations for high performance computing. These operations are designed to exploit high performance hardware features such as parallelism and achieve performance benefits.

Intel's valarray implementation uses the Intel® Integrated Performance Primitives (IPP), which is part of the product. Make sure you select IPP when you install the product.

The valarray implementation consists of a replacement header, <valarray>, that provides a specialized high performance implementation for the following operators and types:

Operator	Valarrays of Type
abs, acos, asin, atan, atan2, cos, cosh, exp, log, log10, pow, sin, sinh, sqrt, tan, tanh	float, double
addition, subtraction, division, multiplication	float, double
bitwise or, and, xor	(all unsigned) char, short, int
min, max, sum	signed or short/signed int, float, double

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.

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.