title: x86 max/min asm instructions?
body: <p>Are there any asm instructions that can speed up computation of min/max of vector of doubles/integers on Core i7 architecture?</p>
  
  <p><strong>Update:</strong></p>
  
  <p>I didn't expect such rich answers, thank you.
  So I see that max/min is possible to do without branching.
  I have sub-question:</p>
  
  <p>Is there an efficient way to get the index of the biggest double in array?</p>