I do generally like their approach. It's especially well suited given how easy comptime allows metaprogramming against the target register size.
I wish it had a few more builtins for commonly supported operations without me having to write inline assembly (e.g., runtime LUTs are basically untenable for implementing something like bolt [0] without inline asm), but otherwise the abstraction level is about where I'd like it to be. I usually prefer it to gcc intrinsics, fully inline asm, and other such shenanigans.
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I do generally like their approach. It's especially well suited given how easy comptime allows metaprogramming against the target register size.
I wish it had a few more builtins for commonly supported operations without me having to write inline assembly (e.g., runtime LUTs are basically untenable for implementing something like bolt [0] without inline asm), but otherwise the abstraction level is about where I'd like it to be. I usually prefer it to gcc intrinsics, fully inline asm, and other such shenanigans.
[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.10283