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▲Vectorizing for Fun and Performance (ibm.com)
48 points by rinostroh 8 days ago | 4 comments
spider-mario 2 days 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 1 days ago [-]
Makes me wonder why IBM never tried to make a GPU at some point.
bear8642 1 days ago [-]
They sort of did with the Cell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_(processor)
jiehong 1 days ago [-]
Ah, you're right!

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

8 days ago [-]
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