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		hashxyz on Jan 18, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Finite Field Assembly: A Language for Emulating GP... 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.

Conscat on Jan 18, 2025 [–]

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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