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Posted by yurivish 11 hours ago

Platform-independent SIMD in Go(go.dev)
339 points | 129 commentspage 3
neonsunset 7 hours ago|
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chrisjj 9 hours ago|
> Go 1.26 and 1.27 include experimental APIs for Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) operations.

You'd think these people would know the meaning of API, no?

cloudfudge 8 hours ago||
One wonders what overly-narrow definition of API you're stuck on.
chrisjj 7 hours ago||
One wonders why you wonder.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/API

tredre3 5 hours ago||
I suspect you stopped reading at web services on your link, but API is indeed the correct word to describe a set of functions from a library (built-in or not). If you disagree perhaps you should share your preferred term here?

> The term API is often used to refer to web APIs, which allow communication between computers that are joined by the internet. There are also APIs for programming languages, software libraries, computer operating systems, and computer hardware.

chrisjj 4 hours ago||
> API is indeed the correct word to describe a set of functions from a library (built-in or not).

Uncorroborated by WP, note.

> If you disagree perhaps you should share your preferred term here?

Library functions.

adonovan 1 hour ago||
“API” meant “library functions” long before the first web server responded with JSON.