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Decabytestoday at 12:32 AM2 repliesview on HN

I feel like SIMD has been around for decades. Why has it taken this long to catch on? I feel like I have been hearing it a lot through the past few years. It feels like it’s talked about like some programming silver bullet


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r3trohack3rtoday at 12:45 AM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_instruction,_multiple_d...

Looking at the Wikipedia article - I wonder if it is because SIMD and SIMT are enabled by hardware first

actionfromafartoday at 12:41 AM

LLMs?