Lightroom and AVX more performance?

The new Intel Sandy Bridge CPU are advertised as being AVX capabale. Apparently this code (or whatever it is) allows programms to be executed twice as fast as before. Can anybody explain to me wether LR already uses AVX or if it will use it in a future version (such as LR 4.0). And what about Photoshop? Does it use AVX?
In other words: Is or will AVX be relevant for image editing?

AVX is a new instruction set. For any application to use those new instructions, it would have to be compiled for them. LR is currently compiled for SSE2, which was released with the Pentium 4 in about 2001. Since then, we've had SSE3, SSE4 and now AVX.
If LR were compiled for AVX instructions, it wouldn't run on any processor prior to Sandy Bridge. There are ways around this including multiple distributed compilations installed based on processor type or multiple code-paths selected at run time based on processor type. Both have significant difficulties which is why LR is the way it is now - compiled for the "least common denominator" - processors that support SSE2. Even that caused problems at one point in LR's history since some AMD processors popular at that time didn't support those instructions and so LR didn't work on those machines.
I'd love to see the team invest in AVX via the multiple code-paths approach for some of the internals of Camera Raw (not for all of LR, or even all of Camera Raw). However, this might be a big investment of time, I don't really know.

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