edist

A Levenshtein edit distance calculator utilizing multithreading and AVX2.

Requirements

• Currently, this only runs on systems based on the Linux kernel and x86 CPU's that support AVX2
• You must install either gcc or clang to compile this program
• Right now, only strings of the exact same length are supported

Build instructions

1. Clone this repo and cd edist
2. Run make (to use clang, add CC=clang)
3. To run the program, ./edist