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varispeed • yesterday at 6:14 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

Why is it still called SIMD-accelerated, if these are now just normal instructions. You just have to take a little bit more effort into restructuring your algorithms to make use of them.


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boomlinde • today at 8:41 AM

What does "normal" have to do with it? SIMD means single instruction, multiple data, which is how these instructions are designed.

anthomtb • yesterday at 7:43 PM

How does using instructions that operate on multiple data elements, which make your software 3 times faster, not fit the definition of SIMD-accelerated?

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