simd was one I thought we needed. Then, i started benchmarking using iter with chunks and a nested if statement to check the chunk size. If it was necessary to do more, it was typically time to drop down to asm rather than worry about another layer in between the code and the machine.

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b33j0r 11 hours ago | parent [-]

This is the most surprising comment to me. It’s that bad? I haven’t benchmarked it myself.

Zig has @Vector. This is a builtin, so it gets resolved at comptime. Is the problem with Rust here too much abstraction?

	▲	oasisaimlessly 11 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I think you misinterpreted GP; he's saying that with some hints (explicit chunking with a branch on the chunk size), the compiler's auto-vectorization can handle the rest, inferring SIMD instructions in a manner that's 'good enough'.