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I thought the same but that’s not how that works. It’s variable width at the assembly level. You give it entire buffers with the total length and it internally uses the appropriate width (or tells you the width it used during the loop? I forget that detail). Anyway, it’s not a SW framework but a core part of the CPU implemented in Hw.


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