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Multiple Byte Processing with Full-Word Instructions (1975) [pdf]
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- makapuf 9y agoLove the acknowledgement at the end to Donald Knuth. Those times must have been epic. Now if that sort of thing interest you, you can have a look at the "Bit twiddling hacks" on Google.
- Upvoter33 9y agoAn early set of thoughts about vectorized computing. However, not the earliest - some machines in the 60s did this sort of thing.
- tjalfi 9y agoHi, OP here. I would describe this paper as an early example of SWAR (SIMD Within A Register)[0]. It certainly didn't invent vectorization. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWAR https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWAR