AlignedAllocs.jl

All allocations use the new Memory infrastructure.

AlignedAllocs.jl provides fast, cache alignment aware allocations for Julia vectors, matrices, arrays.

• {Vector, Matrix, nD Array}{T} are supported
• FixedLength{Vector, Matrix, nD Array}{T} are supported
• The package wraps platform specific memory allocation primitives
  • in a consistent, small, coherent and type stable API.

What AlignedAllocs.jl brings

Julia's Memory type (MemoryRef) is now a cornerstone feature of AlignedAllocs

• Aligned memory is provided

  • backing a Vector{T} or an Array{T,N}
  • backing a FixedSizeVector{T} or a FixedSizeArray{T,N}

• Aligned memory is obtained

  • either uninitialized or zeroed
  • without offsets into another memory object
  • without copying from another memory source

• System local cache line size is determined during precompilation

  • this becomes the default alignment

• mutually and successively aligned sequences are available

  • contiguous fixed length vectors are sequentially aligned
  • this works where the sizeof the constituent vector is
    • less than or equal to the alignment of the vector's start
    • if the constituent is larger than the alignment, the alignment is increased