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SIMD in the 90s: Programming Intel's Pentium MMX

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Pikuma has published an article on SIMD, or single instruction multiple data, as it worked on Intel's Pentium MMX in the nineteen-nineties. The technique let processors execute multiple operations at once, and the Pentium MMX was among the first to bring this capability to consumer hardware.

Source: https://pikuma.com/blog/programming-intel-pentium-mmx-simd

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