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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Vector processing''' support refers to the ability of [[Central Processing Unit|CPUs]] to provide direct support in [[hardware]] for handling [[array|vectors]] (in the same way that [[floating point]] support refers to handling computations using floating point quantities directly, rather than doing those computations in [[software]], with more elementary operations).<br />
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Built in support for vector operations results in increased performance, especially in [[pipeline]]d CPUs, where elements in the vector can be fed through the pipeline faster by a vector operation than they could be by individual [[instruction]]s.<br />
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It first appeared in the very largest [[supercomputer]]s, notably the [[STAR-100]] and [[CRAY-1]], and worked their way down though ordinary [[mainframe]]s, etc.<br />
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