appendix C Glossary
3DNow! An AMD vector instruction set that first supported single-precision operations.
Affinity Assigning a preference for the placement of a process, rank, or thread to a particular hardware component. This is also called pinning or binding.
Algorithmic complexity A measure of the number of operations that it would take to complete an algorithm. Algorithmic complexity is a property of the algorithm and is a measure of the amount of work or operations in a procedure.
Aliasing Where pointers point to overlapping regions of memory. In this situation, the compiler cannot tell if it is the same memory, and in these instances, it would be unsafe to generate vectorized code or other optimizations.
Anti-flow dependency A variable ...
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