This is a quick reference for Intel's Streaming SIMD Extensions. Feel free to make additions or corrections!

Vector types

The vector types here are named with the same convention as in Factor's SIMD library. It should be obvious what they mean:

• char-16
• uchar-16
• short-8
• ushort-8
• int-4
• uint-4
• float-4
• double-2

Instruction set

The number next to each instruction is the SSE version:

• 1: SSE
• 2: SSE2
• 3: SSE3
• 3.3: SSSE3
• 4.1: SSE4.1
• 4.2: SSE4.2

Notes:

• There are many more instructions that do not fit in this grid, but these are the most important ones to know.
• Every move instruction has an aligned and unaligned form. Aligned is faster, but will trap if your address is not a multiple of 16 bytes.

Idioms

int-4

Select nth component

Gather four integers into a vector

float-4

Select nth component

Gather four floats into a vector

Broadcast float into four components

Absolute value

Horizontal add with SSE2

double-2

Select nth component

Gather two doubles into a vector

Broadcast double into two components

Absolute value

Horizontal add with SSE2

References

For full details, consult Intel's or AMD's instruction set reference documentation.