Old computers meant for big jobs often had an external unit to crunch data in specific ways. A computer doing weather prediction, for example, might have an SIMD (single instruction multiple data ...

The capability is known as single instruction, multiple data, or SIMD. The ability to perform SIMD operations in Java is enabled through the incubating Vector API, which is a preview feature in JDK 21 ...

It was the first of many single-instruction multiple-data (SIMD) extensions. The MMX™ instructions operate on eight 64-bit MM registers, and these registers alias the lower 64 bits of the x87 ...