I think this is but a detail in the context of the article. Yes, you can implement your state machine on SIMD sized states, but there are also millions of othe

I think this is but a detail in the context of the article. Yes, you can implement your state machine on SIMD sized states, but there are also millions of other optimizations you can do like that, aligning your reads, prefetching the file, parallelizing, etc. Doesn't change the core concept