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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.



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