"...SIMD is underutilized in general purpose workloads... Daniel Lemire and I built simdjson to show the power of SIMD in a non-traditional domain..." To your

"...SIMD is underutilized in general purpose workloads... Daniel Lemire and I built simdjson to show the power of SIMD in a non-traditional domain..." To your point, the recently front-paged simdjson writeup made me regret ignoring SIMD. I had dabbled in 3D graphics and matrix math stuff in the 90s and somehow continued to associate those extensions with that kind of work. My bad. Thank you for daylighting this stuff.