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I believe that C is in part to blame, because the ANSI C abstract machine describes a single-threaded processor.



SIMD is not about threading. Of course you can multithread it too, just like any other code.


My comment was responding to the concept that "it's notable how little of the hardware in our devices actually gets put to use".




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