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by dragontamer 572 days ago
Oh all of this was being done in the 1980s by Lisp* programmers.

I'm not calling it new. I'm just saying that the intrinsics style is much much harder than what Lisp*, DirectX HLSL, CUDA, OpenCL (etc. etc) does.

A specialized SIMD language makes writing SIMD easier compared to intrinsic style. Look at any CUDA code today and compare it to the AVX that is in the above article and it becomes readily apparent.