No, unless you have a special setup where one process on the whole machine can u...

No, unless you have a special setup where one process on the whole machine can use AVX. That might make sense for special, controlled environments.

What I meant is that there are more registers to shuffle around at context switch time, when multiple processes use the extensions.

jeffreyrogers on July 11, 2018 [–]

Ah got it, thanks.