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Do you have any explanation of why you think so? And how much is hugh data for you?

I work with image processing, >1GiB/s. We optimize for each platform for hand, many embedded platforms but also x86_64. Most of our work is detectors and loss-less compression and we could not do these things in realtime if it weren't for SIMD/MIMD.

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I was not very specific. What I meant to get at was that if your bottleneck is memory, then optimizing for instructions is not going to help. is_sort is an example algorithm that's far more dependent on memory than it is on instruction throughput.

If your bottleneck isn't memory, then yeah, SIMD is a real boon.

It's rare to have a meaningful algorithm where memory is the absolute only bottleneck. Not much else aside from memcpy and even that can see a benefit from SIMD tuning on many systems.

Especially since high performance software is glad to have even a 1% boost in speed.

It’s not all about compute. SIMD instructions allow you to load more bits per instruction cycle. When you are doing sequential access on a modern processor, this can make a huge difference. It allows you to use the memory bandwidth to its full capacity.

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