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consptoday at 6:38 AM0 repliesview on HN

While highly specific optimisations might give you a tiny bit of advantage, the main boost here is vector code which would work on any processor supporting the instructions. They could have looked at the vendor bits and use those to flag for optimization in any cpu but they didn't and limited it to a small subset of programs and cpus. It tingles the "PR above all else must have highest score" sense.