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Vectors are pretty big for speeding up stuff like string comparisons.

Bit manipulation offers up to almost 10% advantage.

Zicond allows branchless code which represents significant speedups.

There’s also serious gains to be had from crypto support.

I’d guess the rest aren’t as important to Python, but those are quite important.





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