Basic Features

Optimization Notice

The Intel® Integrated Performance Primitives (Intel® IPP) library contains functions that are more highly optimized for Intel microprocessors than for other microprocessors. While the functions in the Intel® IPP library offer optimizations for both Intel and Intel-compatible microprocessors, depending on your code and other factors, you will likely get extra performance on Intel microprocessors.

While the paragraph above describes the basic optimization approach for the Intel® IPP library as a whole, the library may or may not be optimized to the same degree for non-Intel microprocessors for optimizations that are not unique to Intel microprocessors. These optimizations include Intel® Streaming SIMD Extensions 2 (Intel® SSE2), Intel® Streaming SIMD Extensions 3 (Intel® SSE3), and Supplemental Streaming SIMD Extensions 3 (Intel® SSSE3) instruction sets and other optimizations. Intel does not guarantee the availability, functionality, or effectiveness of any optimization on microprocessors not manufactured by Intel. Microprocessor-dependent optimizations in this product are intended for use with Intel microprocessors.

Intel recommends that you evaluate other library products to determine which best meets your requirements.

The Intel Integrated Performance Primitives, like other members of the Intel® Performance Libraries, is a collection of high-performance code that performs domain-specific operations. It is distinguished by providing a low-level, stateless interface.

Based on experience in developing and using Intel Performance Libraries, Intel IPP has the following major distinctive features:

To speed up performance, the Intel IPP functions are optimized to use all benefits of Intel® architecture processors. Besides that, most of the Intel IPP functions do not use complicated data structures, which helps reduce overall execution overhead.

The Intel IPP software works with two-dimensional arrays of data, not an image abstraction, thus providing lower-level image processing functions than in most other image processing libraries. This serves the following major goals:

Intel IPP has been designed to support application development on various Intel® architectures. By providing a single cross-architecture API, Intel IPP allows software application repurposing and enables developers to port to unique features across Intel® processor-based desktop, server, mobile, and handheld platforms. Developers can write their code once in order to realize the application performance over many processor generations.


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