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Comment by e4m2

Zig vectors do not necessarily force data into SIMD registers; a scalar implementation would work equally well. This is not just a theoretical argument, because Zig code that uses `@Vector` also has to compile for architectures that do not have SIMD instructions.

That being said, the parent commenter is actually referring to other recent proposals as opposed to existing `@Vector` functionality:

https://codeberg.org/ziglang/zig/issues/32032

https://codeberg.org/ziglang/zig/issues/35376

parent e4m2 4 months ago

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