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		Narishma on Jan 21, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: FreeBSD/ARM on Raspberry Pi I agree with your general point, but while the Raspberry Pi has some SIMD instructions, they are pretty useless in practice. They are integer-only, only work on 32-bit registers (so you can only work on two 16-bit or four 8-bit values) and they are implemented serially on one lane (each clock, the CPU does the work on one of the values) instead of the parallel way SIMD is generally done.

simias on Jan 21, 2014 [–]

Actually I was thinking about ARM NEON, I thought the broadcom SoC in the pi supported it but I was mistaken.

So yeah, you can scratch the SIMD part of my original comment.

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