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    1 year ago

    There are already special instruction sets that deal with 128 and up bits. Many SIMD. AVX-512 for example deals with 512 bits at a time.

    At this point the advantage is parallelization and specialization of operations. AVX can be used for video encoding/decoding for example, or crypto, …