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Apr 4, 2022 · Fundamentals
From Simple Loops to SIMD: The Evolution of Parallel Computation in CPU Design
The article narrates a CPU's journey from a naïve element‑wise increment loop to the adoption of SIMD, MMX, SSE, and AVX instruction sets, illustrating the motivations, challenges, and architectural decisions behind parallelizing integer and floating‑point operations.
CPU architectureInstruction SetMMX
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