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Why would C be the requirement for “really fast things”? It doesn’t even have any support for SIMD instructions other than going inline assembly.

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Using intrinsics is much more sensible option than dropping to inline asm. Each CPU with SIMD or any kind of specialised instructions provides an intrinsics library for C.

Which, correct me if I'm wrong, is also a compiler extension.

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