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		OpenJDK Merges Intel's x86-SIMD-sort For Speeding Up Data Sorting 7~15x (phoronix.com)
		10 points by mfiguiere 7 months ago \| hide \| past \| favorite \| 2 comments

palashkulsh 7 months ago [–]

Can anyone please help with why sorting on smaller size int is faster than larger size int

sagarm 7 months ago | [–]

Because the SIMD registers are a fixed width and the memory bandwidth is fixed, so you can process more values of a smaller bit width per unit time.

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