SIMD support...

[Walter Bright]

On 1/16/2012 5:06 AM, Marco Leise wrote:
> I bet there are more programs that
> could benefit from SSE than is obvious or code that could be rewritten in way,
> that multiple data sets can be processed simultaneous.

I think there's quite a bit more, it's just that using SIMD instructions has 
historically been so clumsy, few take advantage.

For example, a memchr operation could be dramatically speeded up with SIMD, 
which has implications for regex.