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There are five versions of VIS: VIS 1, VIS 2, VIS 2+, VIS 3 and VIS 4.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Visual_Instruction_Set&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>VIS 1 was introduced in 1994 and was first implemented by Sun in their <a href="/wiki/UltraSPARC" title="UltraSPARC">UltraSPARC</a> microprocessor (1995) and by Fujitsu in their <a href="/wiki/SPARC64_GP" class="mw-redirect" title="SPARC64 GP">SPARC64 GP</a> microprocessors (2000). </p><p>VIS 2 was first implemented by the <a href="/wiki/UltraSPARC_III" title="UltraSPARC III">UltraSPARC III</a>. All subsequent UltraSPARC and SPARC64 microprocessors implement the instruction set. </p><p>VIS 3 was first implemented in the <a href="/wiki/SPARC_T4" title="SPARC T4">SPARC T4</a> microprocessor. </p><p>VIS 4 was first implemented in the <a href="/wiki/SPARC_M7" class="mw-redirect" title="SPARC M7">SPARC M7</a> microprocessor. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Differences_vs_x86">Differences vs x86</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Visual_Instruction_Set&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Differences vs x86"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="box-Disputed plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-disputed" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/System-search.svg/45px-System-search.svg.png" decoding="async" width="45" height="45" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/System-search.svg/68px-System-search.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/System-search.svg/90px-System-search.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="48" data-file-height="48" /></span></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This article's <b>factual accuracy is <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Accuracy_dispute" title="Wikipedia:Accuracy dispute">disputed</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Relevant discussion may be found on the <a href="/wiki/Talk:Visual_Instruction_Set#Disputed" title="Talk:Visual Instruction Set">talk page</a>. Please help to ensure that disputed statements are <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources" title="Wikipedia:Reliable sources">reliably sourced</a>.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">November 2017</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>VIS is not an instruction toolkit like <a href="/wiki/Intel" title="Intel">Intel</a>'s MMX and SSE. MMX has only 8 registers shared with the <a href="/wiki/Floating-point_unit" title="Floating-point unit">FPU</a> stack, while SPARC processors have 32 registers, also aliased to the double-precision (64-bit) floating point registers. </p><p>As with the SIMD instruction set extensions on other <a href="/wiki/RISC" class="mw-redirect" title="RISC">RISC</a> processors, VIS strictly conforms to the main principle of RISC: keep the instruction set concise and efficient. </p><p>This design is very different from comparable extensions on <a href="/wiki/Complex_instruction_set_computer" title="Complex instruction set computer">CISC</a> processors, such as <a href="/wiki/MMX_(instruction_set)" title="MMX (instruction set)">MMX</a>, <a href="/wiki/Streaming_SIMD_Extensions" title="Streaming SIMD Extensions">SSE</a>, <a href="/wiki/SSE2" title="SSE2">SSE2</a>, <a href="/wiki/SSE3" title="SSE3">SSE3</a>, <a href="/wiki/SSE4" title="SSE4">SSE4</a>, <a href="/wiki/3DNow!" title="3DNow!">3DNow!</a>. </p><p>Sometimes, programmers must use several VIS instructions to accomplish an operation that can be done with only one <a href="/wiki/MMX_(instruction_set)" title="MMX (instruction set)">MMX</a> or <a href="/wiki/Streaming_SIMD_Extensions" title="Streaming SIMD Extensions">SSE</a> instruction, but it should be kept in mind that fewer instructions do not automatically result in better performance. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Functionality">Functionality</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Visual_Instruction_Set&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Functionality"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>VIS re-uses existing SPARC V9 64-bit floating point registers to hold multiple 8, 16, or 32-bit integer values. In this respect, VIS is more similar to the design of <a href="/wiki/MMX_(instruction_set)" title="MMX (instruction set)">MMX</a> than other SIMD architectures such as <a href="/wiki/Streaming_SIMD_Extensions" title="Streaming SIMD Extensions">SSE</a>/<a href="/wiki/SSE2" title="SSE2">SSE2</a>/<a href="/wiki/AltiVec" title="AltiVec">AltiVec</a>. </p><p>VIS includes a number of operations primarily for graphics support, so most of them are only for integers. These include 3D to 2D conversion, <a href="/wiki/Edge_detection" title="Edge detection">edge processing</a> and pixel distance. </p><p>There are four ways to use VIS in code: </p> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/GNU_Compiler_Collection" title="GNU Compiler Collection">GCC</a> -mvis option</li> <li>Use <a href="/wiki/Inline_assembly" class="mw-redirect" title="Inline assembly">inline assembly</a></li> <li>Use inline template in <a href="/w/index.php?title=VSDK&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="VSDK (page does not exist)">VSDK</a>, similar to <a href="/w/index.php?title=Compiler_intrinsics&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Compiler intrinsics (page does not exist)">compiler intrinsics</a>, which have C function like interfaces</li> <li>Use the <a href="/wiki/MediaLib" title="MediaLib">mediaLib</a> multimedia library, which has C function interfaces. It uses VIS on SPARC platforms (and MMX/SSE/SSE2 on x86/x64 platforms) to accelerate multimedia application execution</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Visual_Instruction_Set&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFLiang_HeHarlan_McGhan2005" class="citation web cs1">Liang He; Harlan McGhan (May 2005). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20061230112444/http://www.sun.com/processors/vis/download/mlib/mlib_wp.pdf">"MT mediaLib for Chip MultiThreaded (CMT) Processors"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. Sun Microsystems, Inc. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sun.com/processors/vis/download/mlib/mlib_wp.pdf">the original</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span> on December 30, 2006<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2007-12-03</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=MT+mediaLib+for+Chip+MultiThreaded+%28CMT%29+Processors&rft.pub=Sun+Microsystems%2C+Inc.&rft.date=2005-05&rft.au=Liang+He&rft.au=Harlan+McGhan&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sun.com%2Fprocessors%2Fvis%2Fdownload%2Fmlib%2Fmlib_wp.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AVisual+Instruction+Set" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <ul><li>Gwennap, Linley (5 December 1995). "UltraSparc Adds Multimedia Instructions". <i><a href="/wiki/Microprocessor_Report" title="Microprocessor Report">Microprocessor Report</a></i>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marc_Tremblay" title="Marc Tremblay">Tremblay, Marc</a> et al. (August 1996). 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