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by convery 341 days ago
Neat idea, the 'search' feature is a bit odd though if you don't know which instruction you are looking for. e.g. searching for 'SHA' shows the autocomplete for platforms not selected and then 0 results due to the filters (they haven't been added for SSE/AVX yet), but searching for 'hash' gets you 100 results like '_mm256_castsi256_ph' which has nothing to do with the search.
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Thanks for your comment. We have noticed some strange behavior with the “search” feature, you are right to mention that & we are currently trying to improve its performance. Regarding the SHA you don’t get any results when filtering out NEON or VSX, because the AVX512 SHA intrinsics hasn’t been added yet (under dev atm). When searching for “HASH”, the first 3 results that you get are correct (NEON), the other ones are as mentioned before are bad behavior of the search component - it must have found some similarity.