By: Michael S (already5chosen.delete@this.yahoo.com), August 16, 2014 3:02 pm
Room: Moderated Discussions
Maynard Handley (name99.delete@this.name99.org) on August 16, 2014 2:24 pm wrote:
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> However (other people may have different opinions) the direction this has taken is basically meaningless.
> No-one is excited or impressed by the fact that adding an AES instruction to your CPU makes it run AES code
> faster; likewise the addition of wider vectors is not especially interesting. So what IS interesting?
>
As a practical programmer and co-designer of equipment that can be characterized as vertically integrated dedicated systems based, among other parts, on off-the-shelf PC technology I tend to be impressed by that sort of things. Both of your example (wider vector and AES) are pretty meaningful for us.
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> However (other people may have different opinions) the direction this has taken is basically meaningless.
> No-one is excited or impressed by the fact that adding an AES instruction to your CPU makes it run AES code
> faster; likewise the addition of wider vectors is not especially interesting. So what IS interesting?
>
As a practical programmer and co-designer of equipment that can be characterized as vertically integrated dedicated systems based, among other parts, on off-the-shelf PC technology I tend to be impressed by that sort of things. Both of your example (wider vector and AES) are pretty meaningful for us.
