alt Hacker News> What's canonical or most basic example of where SIMD should be applied, but isn't because it's too tricky to do so?
There is none. That's a contradiction in terms. SIMD either fits the shape or it doesn't.
> What's canonical or most basic example of where SIMD should be applied, but isn't because it's too tricky to do so?
There is none. That's a contradiction in terms. SIMD either fits the shape or it doesn't.
Variable length parallelism is hard. You can go to highload.fun (SIMD competition site) for problems that are only parallelized after significant effort.
Try problem #1, parsing numbers.