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		g0xA52A2A on July 27, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: ZFS on Linux v0.7.0 released Yeah I don't equate SIMD instructions to being ASIC's.

lorenzhs on July 27, 2017 [–]

Yeah an ASIC is an Application-specific integrated circuit. SIMD instructions are not application-specific.

gigatexal on July 27, 2017 | [–]

Thanks for correcting me. I was wrong. But it is nice to see acceleration in the FS space using SIMD intrinsics on the chips we already own.

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