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Thanks for the explanation. Aside from vectorization is there anything else that handwritten assembly could be better? Assuming on modern CPUs and modern compil

Thanks for the explanation. Aside from vectorization is there anything else that handwritten assembly could be better? Assuming on modern CPUs and modern compilers.

saagarjha 3y ago
Sure, people who are good at assembly can often do register allocation and instruction selection better for small snippets of code. Or optimize based on guarantees the compiler can’t see or know about.