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Re:Gathering Intel on Intel AVX-512 Transitions by blattimwind on Friday January 17, 2020 @07:40PM (#22081274)
> It's the most important ISA extension since, well, I'm not sure: a long time (probably AVX and AVX/2 combined would have a similar impact).

IMHO the most important ISA extension since AMD64 was AES-NI, which moved a major consumer of CPU time into the also-rans.

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