Comment by jhalstead
3 years ago
[0] for those interested in Highway.
It's also mentioned in [1], which starts off
> Today we're sharing open source code that can sort arrays of numbers about ten times as fast as the C++ std::sort, and outperforms state of the art architecture-specific algorithms, while being portable across all modern CPU architectures. Below we discuss how we achieved this.
[0] https://github.com/google/highway
[1] https://opensource.googleblog.com/2022/06/Vectorized%20and%2..., which has an associated paper at https://arxiv.org/pdf/2205.05982.pdf.
:) Thanks for the mention. Highway/vqsort TL here, happy to discuss.
PS: I used to work on JPEG XL. It is great to see these outstanding improvements, congrats to the team!