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[[x86]], [[x86-64]], as well as [[PowerPC#G4|PowerPC]] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Architecture#Power_ISA_v.2.03 Power ISA v.2.03] processors provide '''Single Instructions''' on '''Multiple Data''' (SIMD), namely on [[Array|vectors]] of [[Float|floats]], [[Double|doubles]] or various integers, [[Byte|bytes]], [[Word|words]], [[Double Word|double words]] or [[Quad Word|quad words]], available through assembly and compiler intrinsics. SIMD-applications related to computer chess cover [[Bitboards|bitboard]] computations and [[Fill Algorithms|fill-algorithms]] like [[Dumb7Fill]] and [[Kogge-Stone Algorithm]], as well as [[Evaluation|evaluation]] related stuff, like this [[SSE2#SSE2dotproduct|SSE2 dot-product]] of 64 bits by a vector of 64 bytes.
'''SWAR''' as acronym for SIMD Within A Register was coined by [[Hank Dietz]] and Randy '''Randell J. Fisher ''' <ref>[http://www.aggregate.org/SWAR/ The Aggregate: SWAR, SIMD Within A Register] by [[Hank Dietz]]</ref> . It is a processing model which applies SIMD parallel processing across sections of a CPU register, often vectors of smaller than byte-entities are processed in [[Parallel Prefix Algorithms|parallel prefix]] manner.
=SIMD Instruction Sets=
