SVE and Neon coding compared

Related information

Here are some Neon resources related to material in this guide:

• Arm Neon technology
• Engineering specifications for the Neon intrinsics can be found in the Arm C Language Extensions (ACLE).
• Neon Programmer's Guide for Armv8-A
• The Architecture Exploration Tools let you investigate the Advanced SIMD instruction set.
• The Arm Architecture Reference Manual Armv8, for Armv8-A architecture profile provides a complete specification of the Advanced SIMD instruction set.
• The Neon Intrinsics Reference provides a searchable reference of the functions specified by the ACLE.

Here are some SVE resources related to material in this guide:

• Arm Architecture Reference Manual Supplement - The Scalable Vector Extension (SVE), for Armv8-A
• Arm Instruction Emulator
• Engineering specifications for the SVE intrinsics can be found in the Arm C Language Extensions for SVE specification.
• SVE Vector Length Agnostic programming
• The Arm HPC tools for SVE web page describes the tools to enable you to work with SVE code on AArch64.
• What is the Scalable Vector Extension?

Here are some additional resources related to material in this guide:

• Arm C/C++ Compiler Reference
• Arm Fortran Compiler Reference
• Arm Performance Libraries.
• Compiler flags across architectures: -march, -mtune, and -mcpu blog.
• LLVM-Clang documentation