> perhaps a C compiler only needs to represent that function as an intrinsic instead, to give itself a chance to later replace it either with the function call

> perhaps a C compiler only needs to represent that function as an intrinsic instead, to give itself a chance to later replace it either with the function call or some SIMD instruction I gesture to this in the blog post: > In C, one writes a function, and it is exported in an object file. To appreciate why this is special, consider sum :: Num a => [a] -> a in Haskell. This function exists only in the context of GHC. > ... > perhaps there are more fluent methods for compilation (and better data structures for export à la object files).