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by wmu 2805 days ago
Speaking of the Intel world it's not that bad. There are three major version right now: SSE4.1, AVX and AVX2 (AVX512 is not popular yet).

In the past (roughly 10 years ego) it was a problem, as there were: MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, XOP, 3DNow and perhaps a few more extensions.

it's not a typo, there are three 'S' :)

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Sorry, I forgot that in HN comments the asterisk char is an italics indicator. There should be a mark after SSSE3.