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Comment by hashxyz

5 months ago

Pretty sure this is just vectorization. You can pack some 8bit ints into a machine-length 32bit int and add them together, that is vectorization.

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Conscat  5 months ago

I don't think that's true when the add overflows. You wouldn't want a lane's overflow to carry into an adjacent lane.

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