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Re:Linus Torvalds on AVX512 by pjmlp on Sunday July 12, 2020 @04:41PM (#23814573)
I am looking at it of the point of view of joe/jane developer that cannot tell head from tail regarding vector programming and doesn't even know what compiler intrinsics are for, and use languages that don't expose them anyway.
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Re:Linus Torvalds on AVX512 by voldacar on Monday July 13, 2020 @01:30AM (#23817457)
Well those people will never be getting the most out of their CPUs to begin with.
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Re:Linus Torvalds on AVX512 by pjmlp on Monday July 13, 2020 @07:05AM (#23819415)
Which is the whole point of "this implicit hope that you just code as always and the compiler will take care of the rest via auto-vectorization and PhD level optimization algorithms.", because not only do those people not get it, there is a general decline in using languages that expose vector intrisics like C and C++ for regular LOB applications.
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