All modern PCs provide SIMD processing but there are no practical
programming books telling you how to use it. Use of these techniques can
allow programs to run 8 to 10 times faster than conventional programs on
the same computer. The book enables high-level language programmers to
make effective use of a technology that at present is known to and
utilised only by a handful of developers. They could write graphics
programs that were much faster as a result. This will be of interest to
practitioners of games programming, image processing, medical image
analysis, video processing etc.