Inline C/ASM is literally a different language. System.Runtime.Intrinsics is a library. Just because this one benchmark used the library in a C-like style doe

Inline C/ASM is literally a different language. System.Runtime.Intrinsics is a library. Just because this one benchmark used the library in a C-like style doesn't mean that's required. There are many simpler implementations in all languages. I actually like that there are multiple implementations, as this lets us estimate the benefit and complexity of adopting various optimizations. Limiting the benchmark to naive implementations would penalize languages with more broad capabilities for optimization. I'd personally prefer a benchmark limited to memory-safe implementations, though.