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> Letting userspace know the page size was IMO a design mistake. How would you have had users handle SIMD tails?
by dataflow 1y ago
> Letting userspace know the page size was IMO a design mistake.
How would you have had users handle SIMD tails?
- pornel 1y agoFixed-length SIMD was a design mistake too. But realistically, you only need to know the lower bound for the page size, so pages larger by an unknown multiple are not a problem. Or use masked loads, and don't even worry about pages.