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I'm not sure what a sane ISA has to do here, the parent was comparing a SIMD accelerated program to a non-SIMD program and using that to compare two CPU archite

I'm not sure what a sane ISA has to do here, the parent was comparing a SIMD accelerated program to a non-SIMD program and using that to compare two CPU architectures. Does that seem right to you?

BeeOnRope 8y ago
Perhaps not, but I was referring only to the assertion that wide SIMD is not in the "hard part" of designing a CPU. I happen to agree with the GP that comparing SIMD accelerated to not can give a misleading picture, and so deserves to be noted - especially when one party has relevant SIMD instructions but they weren't used for some reason.