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Re:AMD's Bulldozer server benchmarks are here, and they're a... by DarkShikari on Tuesday November 22, 2011 @04:29AM (#3264803)
since most the time you'd want to use the 256-bit vector instructions

There are no 256-bit integer vector instructions on x86, and AVX is slower than SSE on Bulldozer.

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Re:AMD's Bulldozer server benchmarks are here, and they're a... by onenine on Tuesday November 22, 2011 @11:11AM (#3266027)
Sad but true...You can issue SIMD instructions on 4 doubles at once though (and put whatever you want in those 16 registers)....
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