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VOLK is the Vector-Optimized Library of Kernels. It is a free library,
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currently offered under the GPLv3, that contains kernels of hand-written SIMD
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code for different mathematical operations. Since each SIMD architecture can
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be very different and no compiler has yet come along to handle vectorization
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properly or highly efficiently, VOLK approaches the problem differently.
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For each architecture or platform that a developer wishes to vectorize for,
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a new proto-kernel is added to VOLK. At runtime, VOLK will select the correct
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proto-kernel. In this way, the users of VOLK call a kernel for performing
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the operation that is platform/architecture agnostic. This allows us to
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write portable SIMD code that is optimized for a variety of platforms.
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VOLK was introduced as a part of GNU Radio in late 2010 based on code released
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in the public domain. In 2015 it was released as an independent library for
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use by a wider audience.
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