[wmf]

Lemire is very narrowly interested in CPU SIMD so within that niche it may be interesting. As you said, overall the Spark is good but not great.

[oofbey]

I cannot fathom why he brings up CPU SIMD as a potential comparative weakness on the NVIDIA Spark when it has teraflops of CUDA sitting right there.

[well_ackshually]

Because you won't run your sorting algorithm that runs every frame on a CUDA kernel. CPU performance matters more than however many tflops of CUDA you have under hand as soon as you do silly things like "run an OS" and "use your PC for anything but shitting out tokens"