Android NDK, Revision 10 supports Intel 64-bit architecture

Good news for Android application developers: the new, tenth version of Android NDK , released in July, contains three new 64-bit ABIs : arm64-v8a , x86_64 and mips64 , which will favorably affect program performance. We are especially pleased to note the x86_64 support that has appeared , because the Intel team, of course, took part in this work. By the way, the x86 interface has also been refined, in particular, support for SSSE3 instructions has been added. The default compiler for 64-bit platforms is GCC 4.9. Another major 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 ARM NEON code of intrinsic functions into x86 intrinsics. And the author of the corresponding code is the editor of the Intel blog - Vikky13 .
Full list of changes .