RcppAnnoy 0.0.14
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A new minor release of RcppAnnoy is now on CRAN, following the previous 0.0.13 release in September.
RcppAnnoy is the Rcpp-based R integration of the nifty Annoy library by Erik Bernhardsson. Annoy is a small and lightweight C++ template header library for very fast approximate nearest neighbours—originally developed to drive the famous Spotify music discovery algorithm.
This release once again allows compilation on older compilers. The 0.0.13 release in September brought very efficient 512-bit AVX instruction to accelerate computations. However, this could not be compiled on older machines so we caught up once more with upstream to update to conditional code which will fall back to either 128-bit AVX or no AVX, ensuring buildability “everywhere”.
Detailed changes follow below.
Changes in version 0.0.14 (2019-11-11)
RcppAnnoy again synchronized with upstream to ensure builds with older compilers without AVX512 instructions (Dirk #53).
The
cleanupscript only uses/bin/sh.
Courtesy of CRANberries, there is also a diffstat report for this release.
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