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On Wed, Oct 27, 2021 at 12:37:16PM -0500, Noah Goldstein wrote:
> What about just splitting off a field for 'AVX512_ZMM_Hi256'?

Let's please not perpetuate this into what it cannot become anyway. The
more stuff we add to it, the more people will start using it and we're
stuck with it forever. And soon that thing will be worthless anyway.

So what's the point...

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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