> So there was #pragma simd, which sort of worked, unless you called an external function; that problem never got solved. They never understood why someone woul

> So there was #pragma simd, which sort of worked, unless you called an external function; that problem never got solved. They never understood why someone would want to write a large system that ran completely using all of the vector lanes and couldn’t imagine it was an important use case. (The attentive reader may realize that this execution model precisely describes GPUs.) Fuck, that must have been an infuriating experience dealing with the hardware team.