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Not a whole lot of asm experience here- what does it mean for a register to be vectorized?


SIMD. Instead of having one value in one register, you have several values per register. (usually a small power of 2. SSE is 4 floats per register. AVX512 is 16 floats per register.)


And, when you perform an operation on a register, like an add, the operation works on all of the values in that register simultaneously in a single instruction.




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