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Asked: 2026-05-13T06:34:58+00:00

I am writing a graphics library in C and I would like to utilize

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I am writing a graphics library in C and I would like to utilize SSE instructions to speed up some of the functions. How would I go about doing this? I am using the GCC compiler so I can rely on compiler intrinsics. I would also like to know whether I should change the way I am storing the image data (currently I am just using an array of floats) – do I need to use an array of type float __attribute__ ((vector_size (16))) ?

EDIT: the type of image manipulation/processing I am interested in include affine transformations, geometry, and frequency domain filtering (Fourier analysis)

Any references or tips on how I should go about using SSE for image manipulation in C would be much appreciated.

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  1. Editorial Team

    I’ve been working on some image processing with SSE on Microsoft Visual C++. I’ve found it’s easiest to align all image data (in Visual C++ that’s done with _aligned_malloc and _aligned_free) right from the start. Alignment is a real pain though, that’s why I only used SSE for arithmetic operations (add, subtract, dot product, those kinds of things). If I had to do more complicated things I generally just used pointers.

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