>where making good use of the SIMD intrinsics can allow assembly to massively beat the compiler. Is this the correct use of this terminology? I thought intrins

>where making good use of the SIMD intrinsics can allow assembly to massively beat the compiler. Is this the correct use of this terminology? I thought intrinsics were functions that allow you to tell the compiler to use particular instructions, specifically so you can avoid dropping into assembly. In assembly, wouldn't you just call them "instructions"?