Faster floating point math with Rust's new API

Posted by birdculture 13 hours ago

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Comment by MiroslavPokorny 11 hours ago

Probably slightly offtopic, how many generations of vector math instructions will there be in the next 20 years, when the bit count increases yet again ?

Intel already has several different generations starting at SIMD and ARM also has a few. X86 will be a complete horror in another 20 years with all these generations.

Comment by jbarberu 10 hours ago

"when the bit count increases yet again".

Maybe I lack imagination, but I doubt we'll be needing to address more than 18EB in personal computers for a while longer than 20 years.

Comment by throawayonthe 9 hours ago

perhaps they mean of vector instructions specifically

afaik we currently in the wild have 64, 128, 256, 512 bit extensions?