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The vast majority of developers have 0 need for learning SIMD. Why mislead them, and make them feel like to be a "real" developer they have to know it?
by foo-bar-baz529 2mo ago
The vast majority of developers have 0 need for learning SIMD. Why mislead them, and make them feel like to be a "real" developer they have to know it?
- ch4s3 2mo agoIt seems like its useful to be aware of at the very least. Surely every developer has written a hot loop that adds or compares simple terms. Knowing that a compiler COULD in theory optimize this for the target CPU architecture is useful in many cases.
- simondotau 2mo agoThe parent comment is now YouTube famous, and apparently represents the entire Hacker News zeitgeist. Reading replies to this article, it seems... like a slight exaggeration? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nJ2tEPD4-k&t=48s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nJ2tEPD4-k&t=48s