asciilifeform: d4: fwiw asciilifeform's (limited) experience w/ fancy SIMD coprocessors was not an epic win.

asciilifeform: doesn't mean they're useless. but all asciilifeform has to report re their use, personally, is the above.

asciilifeform suspects that, like most 'hot new cpu pheatures', they are optimized for benchmark routines but meh in most practical applications

asciilifeform: particularly on x86/64, where takes 'over9000' cycles to shove inputs into / outputs outta the coprocessors.

asciilifeform: np