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Is support and optimization for high performance instructions sets, such as Altivec and SSE/SSE2 planned or likely?

April 26, 2017altivec high instructions optimization PERFORMANCE planned sse sse2 support

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Is support and optimization for high performance instructions sets, such as Altivec and SSE/SSE2 planned or likely?

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Because the client spends most of its time in ‘tree-like’ pointer traversals, programming in support for special instruction sets like Altivec and SSE/SSE2 has little benefit and isn’t likely. However, the client code has already been heavily optimized by the DF team.