04-16-2014, 11:19 PM
(04-16-2014, 10:30 PM)sum2012 Wrote: AVX2 is intel only.It is not fair to AMD
Life is a bitch... I had a Phenom II for a very long time which hadn't even SSE4.1, I recently switched it for an Haswell because I was fed up with AMD being always so long and so late to catch... to a certain extent I was even so deeply disappointed with Bulldozer and the rest I decided not to go on with AMD.
I think you don't understand the work we need to provide when explicitly generating assembly code even through stuff like jitasm, xbyak, asmjit, etc. It's a hell for maintaining them all. So yeah it's not fair for you because you ride the wrong horse. Only SSE4.1 (most recent processors has it, included yours) and AVX2.0 are useful. The future of XOP and FMA4 are too much uncertain by the way.