You don't even have to reach for SIMD to get better performance. Just stop letting crappy software get written. I'm currently agonizing over an application tha

You don't even have to reach for SIMD to get better performance. Just stop letting crappy software get written. I'm currently agonizing over an application that has an 80-120ms response time for 5 hops (including db writes). Yet I know many people who code in my language would find that number amazing for the work being done in those hops. No SIMD. Nothing too crazy. Just well thought out processing flow and proper separation of the stupid.