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		failuser on July 6, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: {n} times faster than C Having a full-blown predicate support is so nice to have, but it interferes with compact instruction encoding. Such bloated ISA like x86 might actually handle predicate support, but who will try such a radical change?

gpderetta on July 7, 2023 [–]

AVX512?

Also the original ARM 32 bit instruction sent had extensive predication.

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