ChipsDan Luuover 11 years ago
Assembly v. intrinsics
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Intrinsics remain unreliable for high-performance code despite decades of improvement. A developer found that intrinsics require manual checking on every platform and compiler, making them more work than writing assembly by hand. Example: top search results incorrectly claim Intel's popcnt instruction is slower than a software implementation.
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