Right, but you see my point, don't you? For every set of intrinsics you'd need to know as a contributor if the vectorized code was in C, there is an assembly la

Right, but you see my point, don't you? For every set of intrinsics you'd need to know as a contributor if the vectorized code was in C, there is an assembly language and a set of intrinsics you need to know as a contributor today. Moving to C wouldn't increase the set of things a contributor needs to know.