Overview
SIMD and floating-point arithmetic
Modern processors operate on 4 to 16 numbers at a time. The sections below describe how FLINT expresses exact computations, in particular modular arithmetic, with such vector instructions.
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The FLINT team, “SIMD and floating-point arithmetic,” FLINT: Fast Library for Number Theory, documentation, version 3.7.0-dev, 2026. https://flintlib.org/doc/algorithms/simd/index.html (generated 2026-10-20).
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author = {{The FLINT team}},
title = {{SIMD and floating-point arithmetic}},
howpublished = {FLINT: Fast Library for Number Theory, documentation, version 3.7.0-dev},
year = {2026},
url = {https://flintlib.org/doc/algorithms/simd/index.html},
note = {Generated 2026-10-20}
}