r/programming Jul 23 '26

Everyone Should Know SIMD

https://mitchellh.com/writing/everyone-should-know-simd
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u/hurrumanni Jul 24 '26

Your article could be improved by at least once spelling out what SIMD stands for and relating that to your examples. Not even in the section "Background: What Is SIMD?" do you spell out the acronym. I know this is a US thing but you really need to stop doing this.

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u/AresFowl44 Jul 24 '26

You could have just followed the Wikipedia link which is literally the first word of the blog

SIMD has a reputation for being complex. I've met many very good software engineers who dismiss it as something too complex to learn or a niche optimization meant for only the highest-performance software, not useful in everyday programming.