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> It's the most important ISA extension since, well, I'm not sure: a long time (probably AVX and AVX/2 combined would have a similar impact). IMHO the most imp
by blattimwind 7y ago
> It's the most important ISA extension since, well, I'm not sure: a long time (probably AVX and AVX/2 combined would have a similar impact).
IMHO the most important ISA extension since AMD64 was AES-NI, which moved a major consumer of CPU time into the also-rans.