Pure-C runtime SIMD dispatch templates for R packages. Stage scalar, SSE, AVX, AVX-512, and NEON kernel objects during configuration; link one shared library and switch among compiled and CPU-supported implementations at runtime without unsafe overrides.
install.packages(
"RsimdDispatch",
repos = c("https://sounkou-bioinfo.r-universe.dev", "https://cloud.r-project.org")
)From GitHub:
# install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("sounkou-bioinfo/RsimdDispatch")Copy the C dispatch scaffold from your package root:
RsimdDispatch::use_simd_dispatch(pkg = "MyPackage", prefix = "mypkg")The helper updates DESCRIPTION with
LinkingTo: RsimdDispatch, writes the scaffold files, and
substitutes package-specific registration and C symbol prefixes. It does
not add a runtime dependency on RsimdDispatch. Replace the
demo count_nonzero() kernels under
tools/kernels/ with your own scalar/SSE/AVX/NEON kernels.
The generated configure script probes compiler support,
stages selected kernel objects in src/rsd-kernels/, and
leaves src/Makevars to link those objects with the baseline
R API, CPU detection, and dispatcher.
See the package vignettes for the downstream-package workflow and dispatch semantics.
library(RsimdDispatch)
x <- as.raw(c(0, 1, 2, 0, 255))
count_nonzero(x)
#> [1] 3
simd_backend()
#> [1] "avx2"
simd_set_backend("scalar")
simd_backend()
#> [1] "scalar"
simd_set_backend("avx2")
simd_backend()
#> [1] "avx2"
simd_set_backend("auto")
simd_info()[c("compiled_backends", "cpu_supported_backends", "available_backends", "simde_native_backends")]
#> $compiled_backends
#> [1] "scalar" "sse2" "sse41" "avx2" "avx512"
#>
#> $cpu_supported_backends
#> [1] "scalar" "sse2" "sse41" "avx2"
#>
#> $available_backends
#> [1] "scalar" "sse2" "sse41" "avx2"
#>
#> $simde_native_backends
#> [1] "sse2" "sse41" "avx2" "avx512"
simde_info()[c("version", "commit")]
#> $version
#> [1] "0.8.4"
#>
#> $commit
#> [1] "f3e8262173b7089db9a9d57a9ecef8dd07ad9c97"
simd_dispatch_template_path()
#> [1] "/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/RsimdDispatch/templates/dispatch-c"simd_set_backend() rejects uncompiled or CPU-unsupported
backends. There is no unsafe override.
count_nonzero(x)
#> [1] 3
simd_info()[c("selected_backend", "available_backends")]
#> $selected_backend
#> [1] "avx2"
#>
#> $available_backends
#> [1] "scalar" "sse2" "sse41" "avx2"Switching backends is same-process because all variants are linked into one R shared library and selected through guarded function pointers.
simd_set_backend("scalar")
scalar_count <- count_nonzero(x)
simd_set_backend("avx2")
avx2_count <- count_nonzero(x)
simd_set_backend("auto")
data.frame(
scalar = scalar_count,
avx2 = avx2_count,
selected_after_auto = simd_backend()
)
#> scalar avx2 selected_after_auto
#> 1 3 3 avx2set.seed(1)
x <- as.raw(sample.int(256L, 50 * 1024 * 1024, replace = TRUE) - 1L)
mark <- bench::mark(
scalar = {
simd_set_backend("scalar")
count_nonzero(x)
},
avx2 = {
simd_set_backend("avx2")
count_nonzero(x)
},
iterations = 20,
check = TRUE,
memory = FALSE
)
simd_set_backend("auto")
bench <- data.frame(
backend = as.character(mark$expression),
median_ms = as.numeric(mark$median) * 1000,
mb_per_second = length(x) * as.numeric(mark$`itr/sec`) / 1e6,
iterations = mark$n_itr,
row.names = NULL
)
bench$speedup_vs_scalar <- bench$mb_per_second / bench$mb_per_second[bench$backend == "scalar"]
knitr::kable(bench, digits = 3)| backend | median_ms | mb_per_second | iterations | speedup_vs_scalar |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| scalar | 11.355 | 4616.141 | 20 | 1.000 |
| avx2 | 1.991 | 26181.311 | 20 | 5.672 |
This is a maintainer workflow for RsimdDispatch itself,
not something downstream packages need to run. Downstream packages use
LinkingTo: RsimdDispatch and the copied dispatch template;
they do not re-vendor SIMDe.
RsimdDispatch vendors the full SIMDe header tree under
inst/include/simde. To update the pinned checkout and
regenerate bundled-code notices:
Rscript tools/vendor-simde.R
Rscript tools/update-authors.RProvenance lives in inst/vendor/simde/VERSION,
inst/AUTHORS, and inst/LICENCE.note.
The top-level Makefile uses GNU make.
make rd # roxygen docs and NAMESPACE
make readme # evaluate README.Rmd and write README.md
make test
make check