Project Plan

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Project Plan

This is going to be a break down of my plan for SPO600 final project, for this project we are going to be doing a proof of concept to test i func procedures

"The goal for this project is to produce a proof-of-concept tool that will take code that meets specific conditions and automatically build it with ifunc capability to select between multiple, autovectorized versions of a function, to take advantage of the best SIMD implementation available on the CPU on which the code is running." (Chris Tyler)

To test the solution some code has been provided  https://github.com/ctyler/spo600-fall2022-project-test-code

For this task I am going to be using JSnode for the code and plan to write it on VS code or Atom. I am using these languages as I am familiar with that set up. We have some limitations to the project which are the following:

1. This tool only operates on aarch64 systems
2. There are three targets of interest: machines with advanced SIMD, SVE, and SVE2 capabilities
3. There are only two input source files, one containing main (and optionally other functions) (main.c) and one containing a function to be optimized (function.c)
4. Only function.c is built multiple times for different SIMD implementations
5. The file function.c may only contain one function

How I plan to code this project step by step is still a work in progress as I have to do some more research to find how to take in arguments and adapt to arch64. How ever I do plan to utilize GitHub in order to maintain my code and keep track of updates and roll backs and updates. 

I do have an approach to break it down step by step and get little chunks of code to work at a time, I find that breaking down the problem into little problems helps to keep track of what I am doing and also makes the project feel less large.

update(2022 - 11 - 23) . 

At this time I am trying to find some code examples from open source code in node to examples on how to except input like a picture as an argument and how to get it to run on an Arrch64. I have been seeing a few but its a lot to take in so I need to test some of it. I am trying to understand ifunc a lot more and how the files work and learning how the compiler is going to work for this project.