AMD Performance Library

Overview The AMD Performance Library (APL) is a library produced by Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD), which provides improved support for AMD multi-core processors for Visual Studio and GCC compilers. The AMD Performance Library consists of a collection of popular software routines designed to accelerate application development, debugging, and optimization on x86 class processors. Spanning simple arithmetic routines to rich domains such as image and signal processing, it provides a quick path to high performance development. APL is available as a static library for 32- or 64-bit versions of Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 and GCC 4.1, and as a 32- or 64-bit dynamic library for both the Linux and Microsoft Windows operating systems.
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