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by jeffreygoesto 1114 days ago
> However, developers often encounter problems with Arm NEON instructions being expensive to move to scalar code and back.

I remember talking to an ARM engineer easily 10 years ago and he told us in that nice british accent: "You know, NEON is like 'back in the yard'" :-D. This has changed a lot, but not enough from what you wrote... Bit sad that these SIMD optimizations are still hand written...