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aleph_minus_oneyesterday at 4:45 PM1 replyview on HN

> Apple's mobile chips are now delivering perf that AMD & intel desktop never could or did.

Most applications don't make aggressive use of the SIMD instructions that modern x86 chips offer, thus you get this impression. :-(


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dmitrygryesterday at 5:28 PM

Users do not care why the perf they get is what they get. What good is AVX2048 if nobody uses it?