# The devel/libvolk port

## libvolk-3.1.2 – vector optimized library of kernels

## Description

    VOLK is the Vector-Optimized Library of Kernels. It is a library that
    contains kernels of hand-written SIMD code for different mathematical
    operations. Since each SIMD architecture can be very different and no
    compiler has yet come along to handle vectorization properly or highly
    efficiently, VOLK approaches the problem differently.

    For each architecture or platform that a developer wishes to vectorize
    for, a new proto-kernel is added to VOLK. At runtime, VOLK will select
    the correct proto-kernel. In this way, the users of VOLK call a kernel
    for performing the operation that is platform/architecture agnostic.
    This allows us to write portable SIMD code.

WWW: https://www.libvolk.org

Only for arches
  aarch64 aarch64 alpha amd64 amd64 arm arm hppa i386 i386 mips64 mips64 mips64el mips64el powerpc powerpc powerpc64 powerpc64 riscv64 riscv64 sparc64
Categories:
  devel lang/python

## Library dependencies

- devel/orc

## Build dependencies

- devel/cmake
- devel/ninja
- lang/python/3
- www/py-mako,python3

## Run dependencies

- lang/python/3