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I agree it would have been nice to have 'infinite sized' instructions, chopped up to the actual underlying vector size. But there were so many complaints about AMD not implementing some instructions as 256 bit-wide but 2x128 that I feel they went for the least microcode route.

Mask registers offset the size problem a bit. I just wish we'd rebuild a language or clean libraries to take full advantage of this programming model. Is ispc still maintained? Does anyone use it in prod? Genuinely curious.

I feel SVE is 'too late' as most CPU makers seem to go back to smaller vector units (leaving the vectorized stuff to gpus - I know they're not the same thing, but if you're investing in heavy perf hardware, for repetitive computing...) and even Intel doesn't seem very serious about AVX512 except in the Xeon world. But then if you pay 8000EUR for a platinum thing, you might be able to pay for top talent to handcraft some intrinsics.