Talk:Vector processor
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In most of the computer architecture books that I have read, SIMD is a categorized as type of multiprocessing, not as a type of vectorization. My understanding of the meaning of vectorization is an architecture which streams data into an execution unit. That is, it achieves high performance through high temporal utilization of a single functional unit. SIMD achieves high performance through a different axis, that of replication of functional units. For that reason, I believe this article is confusing SIMD as a type of vectorization. Dyl 23:34, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
