altivec, here I come !

I just started learning altivec. It's quite easy, actually easier than I expected, I can only recommend you to try.

What you need :

• a ppc with altivec enabled. any G4 or G5 based machine will do. I use the pegasos Freescale donated me in sept 2004, a nifty machine
• a linux distro, with altivec enabled gcc. Hm, what about gentoo linux ?
• documentation about altivec. In short, you'll need a "altivec for newbie" tutorial. It's not trivial to find those documentation, see below
• some very basic knowledge in C, an editor, gcc

And voil