Indeed, I don't get the article. It's like writing "C is hard because here is how hard it is to implement memcpy using SIMD correctly." Please don't do that. U

Indeed, I don't get the article. It's like writing "C is hard because here is how hard it is to implement memcpy using SIMD correctly." Please don't do that. Use battle-tested low-level routines. Unless your USP is "our software swaps bytes faster than the competition", you should not spend brain power on that.