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 comparin

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.