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Maybe I'm small brained but built in vector types align with heavily platform optimized libraries. Meaning you don't want this stuff implemented in the compiler

• pixelpoet 3y ago
  Performance is equivalent in both representations, but the important thing is being able to write vec4 c = a * 4 + b; instead of vec4 c = vec4_add(vec4_mul(a, 4), b); i.e. infix vs postfix order, with simple * and +/- operators etc. I would very much like to appeal to the Zig authors to see the beauty in the former expression compared to the latter, for a huge class of real-world mathematical applications.
  • eska 3y ago
    If this wasn’t math code we’d refactor such code into helper functions, but somehow when it’s math we refuse to. vec4 c = a * 4 + b; vec4 c = vec4_add(vec4_mul(a, 4), b); vec4 c = vec4_fma(4, a, b);