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SIMD intrinsics are also translated directly into opcodes. There's very little reason to have floating point ops represented by special syntax rather than ordinary functions like fadd() fsub() fmul() fdiv() fmuladd(), other than mere legacy. (And they might not even be simple opcodes in a soft-float implementation.) I mention floating point specifically because that's where even something basic like the order of operations can affect the outcome, so the extra precision actually matters.