[tiffanyh]

FWIW, my original post was mainly fueled by the fact that AVX was announced in 2008 and in both Intel & AMD chips by 2011.

So it’s not like AVX is a “new” development. It’s 12-years old.

(Not directing these comments at you. Just trying to expanded upon what drove my original post)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Vector_Extensions

[mrweasel]

That's honestly also a little older than I expected. It is a little weird I'll admit. It would be interesting to know if the slow adoption in OpenBSD is deliberate or done on purpose.