top | item 37277475 (no title) gwittel | 2 years ago Cool library. This sounds like SWAR (simd within a register). I’ve seen these techniques give a nice speed up especially when SIMD isn’t available or a pain (eg in Java pre-Panama).One random sample:https://lemire.me/blog/2022/01/21/swar-explained-parsing-eig... discuss order hn newest djmips|2 years ago Yes SWAR - even hardware supported is called SWAR though?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWARWe used this as far back as the eighties on 68000 machines you could do 8 bit SWAR with the 32 bit registers! ashvardanian|2 years ago Yes, in the past those tricks were much more common
djmips|2 years ago Yes SWAR - even hardware supported is called SWAR though?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWARWe used this as far back as the eighties on 68000 machines you could do 8 bit SWAR with the 32 bit registers! ashvardanian|2 years ago Yes, in the past those tricks were much more common
djmips|2 years ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWAR
We used this as far back as the eighties on 68000 machines you could do 8 bit SWAR with the 32 bit registers!
ashvardanian|2 years ago