Platform-independent SIMD in Go(go.dev)
382 points by yurivish | 138 comments
Go Blog post describing experimental SIMD APIs in Go 1.26 and 1.27 for amd64, arm64 NEON, and wasm, and work toward platform-independent SIMD.
#amd64 on Hacker News
3 stories tagged amd64, newest first.
Things I learned while writing an x86 emulator (2013)(timdbg.com)
329 points by fanf2 | 114 comments
Blog post by a former WinDbg developer describing odd x86/amd64 trivia learned while writing the CPU emulator for Microsoft's Time Travel Debugging.
Don't pass structs bigger than 16 bytes on AMD64(gist.github.com)
340 points by todsacerdoti | 114 comments
A GitHub Gist write-up explaining how avoiding passing structs larger than 16 bytes on AMD64 sped up the Neat compiler by about 2x.