FWIW, my original post was mainly fueled by the fact that AVX was announced in 2008 and in both Intel & AMD chips by 2011. So it’s not like AVX is a “new” deve

FWIW, my original post was mainly fueled by the fact that AVX was announced in 2008 and in both Intel & AMD chips by 2011. So it’s not like AVX is a “new” development. It’s 12-years old. (Not directing these comments at you. Just trying to expanded upon what drove my original post) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Vector_Extensions https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Vector_Extensions