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•Compatibility – Intel AVX is backward compatible with previous ISA extensions
including Intel SSE4:
— Existing Intel SSE applications/library can:
• Run unmodified and benefit from processor enhancements
• Recompile existing Intel® SSE intrinsic using compilers that generate
Intel AVX code
• Inter-operate with library ported to Intel AVX
— Applications compiled with Intel AVX can inter-operate with existing Intel SSE
libraries.
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