---
id: 4575
title: "Convert IPv4 string representation to a 32-bit number with SSE instructions"
source_domain: blog.quarkslab.com
source_url: "https://blog.quarkslab.com/convert-ipv4-string-representation-to-a-32-bit-number-with-sse-instructions.html"
published_at: "2014-05-11T22:00:00Z"
tags: ["c", "performance", "optimization", "simd", "sse", "ipv4"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/4575"
lang: en
---

# Convert IPv4 string representation to a 32-bit number with SSE instructions

## Summary

Converting IPv4 strings to 32-bit integers with SSE intrinsics: benchmarks against libleeloo and inet_aton (~20M conversions/s) and the SIMD parsing tricks that beat conventional implementations.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** blog.quarkslab.com
- **Published:** 2014-05-11T22:00:00Z
- **Original:** https://blog.quarkslab.com/convert-ipv4-string-representation-to-a-32-bit-number-with-sse-instructions.html
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/4575