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Vectorizing for Fun and Performance

ibm.com

47 points by rinostroh 8 days ago

spider-mario a day ago

In C++, this can be achieved portably using the Highway library: https://github.com/google/highway

(Disclaimer: I work at Google, but not on this, and I am writing this in my personal capacity.)

jiehong a day ago

Makes me wonder why IBM never tried to make a GPU at some point.

  • bear8642 a day ago

    They sort of did with the Cell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_(processor)

    • jiehong 21 hours ago

      Ah, you're right!

      I didn't realize they actually made a version of the Cell for blade servers at the time