Intrinsics have the huge advantage of enabling wrapper functions, which remove the ugly names and allow you to write user code only once, such that it is even p

Intrinsics have the huge advantage of enabling wrapper functions, which remove the ugly names and allow you to write user code only once, such that it is even portable (or at least multiplatform-dependent). Good point about asan and other instrumentation :) hm, I'd think that is very important for codecs in particular?