I really miss the 286->Pentium days when you had to buy a new machine every year because it would be literally 50-100% faster at everything. Every year! These

I really miss the 286->Pentium days when you had to buy a new machine every year because it would be literally 50-100% faster at everything. Every year! These days people call a 9% single-thread improvement a good year. https://www.cpubenchmark.net/year-on-year.html https://www.cpubenchmark.net/year-on-year.html https://www.karlrupp.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/42-years-processor-trend.png https://www.karlrupp.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/42-years... BTW: Thanks for http://const.me/articles/simd/simd.pdf http://const.me/articles/simd/simd.pdf I came across it recently and posted it to https://www.reddit.com/r/simd/ https://www.reddit.com/r/simd/