Java and SIMD
Auto-vectorization is hard. Very hard. E.g. even in C/C++, the compiler (e.g. GCC C/C++ or MS VC/VC++) is unable to vectorize loops unless you help it a lot, and in most cases, you end writing SIMD "intrinsics" (e.g. [1]) in order to get optimal results. From my experience, despite auto-vectorization being better than 10 years ago, still is very far for optimizing code properly without lots of tuning (e.g. you can try build any graphic processing library and see the vectorization warnings -i.e. why the vectorization was not possible-).Ten years ago, in the SSE2/Altivec times, I thought that it would be matter of time having much smarter compilers making graphics/pixel processing code much faster, but not. So for JIT the case it can not be better, because is similar, as even taking runtime information, the auto-vectorization phase is equivalent. I would love to see smarter compilers, understanding the code, many steps over current hardwired pattern-matching based optimizations.[1] https://software.intel.com/sites/landingpage/IntrinsicsGuide...