• via Digitalmars-d-bugs (17/17) Dec 01 2016 https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16914

via Digitalmars-d-bugs <digitalmars-d-bugs puremagic.com> writes:

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16914

          Issue ID: 16914
           Summary: Add -mavx switch to generate AVX instructions instead
                    of SSE instructions
           Product: D
           Version: D2
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P1
         Component: dmd
          Assignee: nobody puremagic.com
          Reporter: bugzilla digitalmars.com

Because they're smaller & faster, and they have 3 operands instead of 2. Note
that this is not necessarily supporting 32 byte vectors.

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