[llm_nerd]

I have no idea why you're being downvoted. HN has a fetish for SIMD, but if you are hand-rolling SIMD and you aren't writing an explicit acceleration library, you're doing it wrong. Like, 100% of the time.

Every modern language has a vectorization optimizing compiler, and through some fairly straightforward techniques this is automagic. And contrary to the various replies, unless you screwed something up compilers are really good at vectorizing on whatever hardware you're targeting, including SVE.

[spider-mario]

> HN has a fetish for SIMD, but if you are hand-rolling SIMD and you aren't writing an explicit acceleration library, you're doing it wrong. Like, 100% of the time.

What if the “explicit acceleration library” for what you need to do doesn’t exist?

[Archit3ch]

Or it exists and is not optimal for your use case?

[saagarjha]

Compilers are really good but really good is not actually that useful in cases where you need SIMD

[llm_nerd]

I mean, utter bullshit. If you "need SIMD" you know exactly the programming pattern to guarantee SIMD from the compiler. And the single and only people who "need SIMD" know these rules. It is only the hobbyist "SIMD is neat" community that upvotes these ridiculous articles.

[saagarjha]

When I need SIMD I rarely use the compiler to help