I've seen the author advertise his book on codeforces.com blogs before if you want somewhere to reach him: https://codeforces.com/blog/entry/99790 https://codef

I've seen the author advertise his book on codeforces.com blogs before if you want somewhere to reach him: https://codeforces.com/blog/entry/99790 https://codeforces.com/blog/entry/99790 That might be a better intro than a random chapter of the book and contextualizes why you might want to learn SIMD programming (i.e., up to an order of magnitude speed-up vs STL implementations).