Simd Improvements & Docs by Idclip · Pull Request #2332 · AcademySoftwareFoundation/openvdb

Idclip · 2026-09-11T09:14:37Z

Changes to internal copy of VCL to improve use with other installs:

 - Various defines and guards have been prefixed with OPENVDB_VCL_.
 - VCL_NAMESPACE has been removed in favour of an explicit OPENVDB_VCL_NAMESPACE.

Various improvements to Simd.hh

 - Removed unused functions and unused half/base bit vector types
 - Removed global namespaced lambdas
 - Improved documentation
 - More tests for SIMD interface

Added documentation for current ISA targeting and SIMD usage

- Various defines and guards have been prefixed with OPENVDB_VCL_. - VCL_NAMESPACE has been removed in favour of an explicit OPENVDB_VCL_NAMESPACE. Signed-off-by: Nick Avramoussis <4256455+Idclip@users.noreply.github.com>

- Removed unused functions and unused half/base bit vector types - Removed global namespaced lambdas - Improved documentation - More tests for SIMD interface Signed-off-by: Nick Avramoussis <4256455+Idclip@users.noreply.github.com>

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apradhana

Thanks for making the changes, @Idclip!

Idclip · 2026-09-14T01:07:46Z

Thanks for making the changes, @Idclip!

Thanks for the review @apradhana

Idclip requested review from apradhana, danrbailey, jmlait, kmuseth and richhones as code owners September 11, 2026 09:14

Idclip force-pushed the simd_improvements_docs branch 3 times, most recently from 441fb88 to ef0c08c Compare September 11, 2026 10:45

Idclip added 2 commits September 12, 2026 14:06

Various improvements to Simd.h

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- Removed unused functions and unused half/base bit vector types - Removed global namespaced lambdas - Improved documentation - More tests for SIMD interface Signed-off-by: Nick Avramoussis <4256455+Idclip@users.noreply.github.com>

Added documentation for current ISA targeting and SIMD usage

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Signed-off-by: Nick Avramoussis <4256455+Idclip@users.noreply.github.com>

Idclip force-pushed the simd_improvements_docs branch from ef0c08c to ff98e71 Compare September 12, 2026 02:06