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What changed CPU performance from the Macintosh 128K to the M3?

How have the CPUs in our Macs become faster since the Macintosh 128K was launched by Steve Jobs forty years ago?

January 18, 2024 Macs, Technology

Code in ARM Assembly: Lanes and loads in NEON

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How ARM64 uses its special SIMD registers in lanes, and how they can be loaded with and without de-interleaving.

August 23, 2021 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Where’s the accelerator?

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Three recent WWDC sessions extolling Apple’s “extensive reference material” and Xcode can’t find anything on these rich and extensive libraries.

August 8, 2021 Macs, Technology

Accelerating the M1 Mac: an introduction to SIMD

More cores are great for running more processes, but how can you make individual operations within a process faster? SIMD is one solution.

August 6, 2021 Macs, Technology

When idiomatic code is slower, and how to Accelerate

Benchmarking 32-bit Float vector dot-product calculations using Swift, NEON assembly, and Apple’s SIMD libraries, on Intel and M1 Macs.

August 4, 2021 Macs, Technology
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