There are a number of architectures where you leave half of the performance of little things like memset and memcpy on the table without SIMD. as a footnote: e

There are a number of architectures where you leave half of the performance of little things like memset and memcpy on the table without SIMD. as a footnote: everytime in my career that someone has said "you never need floating point in X [kernel/network stack/some embedded thing/boot/whatever]," they've come back within a year to ask for my help with floating point library routines for X. So now you've cursed yourself =)