--- title: Vector Intrinsics Porting Guide group: systemsoftware publicreview: false tags: - software - vectorintrinsics - vector - vmx - vsx - altivec - optimization date: 2018-01-08 draft: --- The goal of this project is to provide functional equivalents of the Intel MMX, SSE, and AVX intrinsic functions, that are commonly used in Linux applications, and make them (or equivalents) available for the PowerPC64LE platform. This document is a Work Group Note work product owned by the System Software Workgroup and handled in compliance with the requirements outlined in the OpenPOWER Foundation Work Group (WG) Process document. Comments, questions, etc. can be submitted to the public mailing list for this document at <syssw-programming-guides@mailinglist.openpowerfoundation.org>.