IntelIntegrated Performance Primitives (Intel IPP) is an extensive library of ready-to-use, domain-specific functions that are highly optimized for diverse Intel architectures. Its royalty-free APIs help developers take advantage of Single Instruction, Multiple Data (SIMD) instructions.[4]
Intel IPP releases use a Semanic Versioning Schema, so that even though the major version looks like a year (YYYY), it is not technically meant to be a year. So it might not change every calendar year.[5]
Intel IPP is divided into four major processing groups: Signal processing (with linear array or vector data), Image processing (with 2D arrays for typical color spaces), Data Compression and Cryptography.[6]
Half the entry points are of the matrix type, a third are of the signal type and the remainder are of the image and cryptography types. Intel IPP functions are divided into 4 data types: Data types include 8u (8-bit unsigned), 8s (8-bit signed), 16s, 32f (32-bit floating-point), 64f, etc. Typically, an application developer works with only one dominant data type for most processing functions, converting between input to processing to output formats at the end points.[6]
Version 4.0 files are dated November 11, 2003. 4.0 runtime fully supports applications coded for 3.0 and 2.0.
Version 5.1 files are dated March 9, 2006. 5.1 runtime does not support applications coded for 4.0 or before.
Version 5.2 files are dated April 11, 2007. 5.2 runtime does not support applications coded for 5.1 or before. Introduced June 5, 2007, adding code samples for data compression, new video codec support, support for 64-bit applications on Mac OS X, support for Windows Vista, and new functions for ray-tracing and rendering.
Version 6.1 was released with the Intel C++ Compiler on June 28, 2009. Update 1 for version 6.1 was released on July 28, 2009. Update 2 files are dated October 19, 2009.[7]
