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by mpweiher 689 days ago
> If it would the majority of optimizations compilers do today would not be standard conform.

They aren't.

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So you can easily tell, just by looking to the C source code, if plain Assembly instructions are being used from four books of ISA manual, if the compiler is able to automatically vectorize a code region including which flavour of vector instructions, or completely replace specific math code patterns for a single opcode.