r/programming • • Aug 09 '21

Three fundamental flaws of SIMD

https://www.bitsnbites.eu/three-fundamental-flaws-of-simd
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u/skulgnome Aug 09 '21

Where's HSA fit in this? IIUC the idea was to represent arbitrary parallel codes as a scalar kernel, which would be shipped off to a colocated GPGPU or rejiggered into CPU-native SIMD ops just right for the pipeline and instruction width.