> Vector operations and such... Well, in reality, they probably would slow down the processor, compared to having many atomic instructions, RISC being faster to

> Vector operations and such... Well, in reality, they probably would slow down the processor, compared to having many atomic instructions, RISC being faster to execute than CISC and all that. Vector operations are about expressing data parallelism to the processor. Parallelism/concurrency is the only thing that will save us past the end of Moore's Law. It has very little to do with fast MMX/SSE lanes.