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On 4/24/24 1:57 AM, John Savard wrote:
> What do vector machines do?

They keep a pipeline full.

So you can do something in 64+7 clock cycles instead of 64*7.

If the pipeline gets shorter the benefit decreases of course. And if you 
have some other way to keep that pipeline full, you don't need vectors.

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