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steveklabnik on March 21, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why Is SQLite Coded in C? (2017)

I think you're confusing loop unrolling and autovectorization. That said, it's kinda moot, once SIMD is stable, we'll find out :)

igouy on March 25, 2018 [–]

>> I think you're confusing loop unrolling and autovectorization. <<

Here's exactly what I was told -- "This was achieved by manually unrolling a 10-step loop, which compiler apparently could not optimize."

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