Yes SWAR - even hardware supported is called SWAR though? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWAR https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWAR We used this as far back as th

Yes SWAR - even hardware supported is called SWAR though? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWAR https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWAR We used this as far back as the eighties on 68000 machines you could do 8 bit SWAR with the 32 bit registers!