Android NDK, Revision 10 supports Intel 64-bit architecture

Good news for Android application developers: the new, tenth version of the Android NDK , released in July, contains as many as three new 64-bit ABIs : arm64-v8a , x86_64 and mips64 , which will have a positive effect on program performance. We are especially pleased to note the support for x86_64 that has appeared, since the Intel team, naturally, took part in this work. By the way, the x86 interface has also been improved, in particular, support for SSSE3 instructions has been added. The default compiler for 64-bit platforms is GCC 4.9. Another important change: GDB has been updated to version 7.6.
And yet - Android NDK and this blog have something in common. Namely, starting from this version, NDK is automatically able to translate the code of ARM NEON intrinsic functions into x86 intrinsics. And the author of the corresponding code is Intel blog editor Vikky13 .
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