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Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

> On Tue, 30 Apr 2024 20:31:17 GMT, Scott Lurndal wrote:

>> ARM doesn't add features just for the sake of adding features, nor does
>> Intel.

> There is such a thing as painting yourself into a corner, where every new 
> feature added to the SIMD instruction set involves adding combinations of 
> instructions, not just for the new types, but also for every single old 
> type as well.

That is the combinational explosion mentioned above.
{Although I would term it the Cartesian Product of types and OPs}

Then contemplate for an instant that one would want SIMD instructions for
Complex numbers and Hamiltonian Quaterions......