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I love how ever example of portable SIMD isn't portable.

They specifies a constant SIMD width so it's non-portable. Well, not performance portable, but why are we using SIMD again?

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Go's implementation is vector size independant https://pkg.go.dev/simd@master
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Why should it be portable? Honest question.

SIMD seems to me, to be very platform specific. Maybe there are times one SIMD unit is not anothers' SIMD unit?

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