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Re:Ask HN: Does anyone have something negative to say about ... by imtringued on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @04:45PM (#17612661)
>What caused Larrabee to suffer was that Intel basically tried to flog a "just write C/C++/Fortran and the autovectorizer will take care of everything" model for programming which,

This reminds me of the story of ispc [1] One guy wrote a compiler based on SPMD while the rest of the company was focused on the doomed auto vectorization.

[1] http://pharr.org/matt/blog/2018/04/30/ispc-all.html

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Re:Ask HN: Does anyone have something negative to say about ... by jcranmer on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @05:14PM (#17612878)
That was one of the sources I used for the comment.
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