Faster floating point math with Rust's new API

(pythonspeed.com)

6 points | by birdculture 8 hours ago ago

3 comments

  • MiroslavPokorny 6 hours ago

    Probably slightly offtopic, how many generations of vector math instructions will there be in the next 20 years, when the bit count increases yet again ?

    Intel already has several different generations starting at SIMD and ARM also has a few. X86 will be a complete horror in another 20 years with all these generations.

    • jbarberu 5 hours ago

      "when the bit count increases yet again".

      Maybe I lack imagination, but I doubt we'll be needing to address more than 18EB in personal computers for a while longer than 20 years.

      • throawayonthe 4 hours ago

        perhaps they mean of vector instructions specifically

        afaik we currently in the wild have 64, 128, 256, 512 bit extensions?