It went from ~30ns to 2K ns but mostly timed out when I changed the alignment to +7.5 QWORDs on Golden Cove.

Small indian. Starting at zero and extending is logical. Big indian is dumb and confusing.

That's me. 1 byte ASCII is all that's needed for text.

shlx doesn't alter the flag register.

SHLX does not support an immediate operand. Non-destructive shifts with immediate operands only arrive with APX, where they are among the most commonly used instructions (besides paired pushes/pops).

I found a jpeg2000 reference PDF somewhere. It may as well have been written in Mandarin. I got as far as extracting the width and height. Its much more advanced than jpeg. Forget about writing a decoder.

Heh. 1.Create fast modulus quad M for dword D for the first 2000? 200000? (xM)D 2.Eliminate 0b,101b 3.Divide using vrcp14ss/vdivss with correction. Use fast square root too using rsqrt14.

Distant Worlds I and now II has had full automation for ages.

AVX2 isn't really 256-bit. Its 2x128-bit.

Human hearing is excellent. Good directional perception and sensitivity. Eyesight is the weakest sense. Poor color sensitivity, low light sensitivity, blindspot. The terrible natural design flaws are compensated by natural nystagmas and the brain filling in the blanks.