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Making the iPhone go faster

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We need things to go fast.  Really fast.  So when came across Ryan Block‘s old post about the iPhone’s vector floating-point coprocessor, I was encouraged.  But how to access this new coprocessor?  I was excited to find some examples on Matthias Grundmann and Wolfgang Engel‘s Google code project, vfpmathlibrary.

They’re just getting started and only have 4×4 matrix operations coded up so far.  Hopefully we can collaborate with these guys to expand the library and do some performance testing on different applications.  More to come on that.

Written by jeff

November 14th, 2008 at 5:41 pm