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The problem: there are 64-bit values with some data bits and some metadata bits; metadata includes a k-bit field describing a "type...

Intel's version of SIMD offers following 2-argument ( binary ) boolean functions: and , or , xor , and not . There isn't a single ar...

AVX2 has added support for 256-bit arguments for many operations on packed integers, although not all. Some instructions accept the 256-bit ...