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Re:Zig self hosted compiler is now capable of building itself by Comevius on Saturday April 16, 2022 @04:01PM (#31055613)
SIMD is not a problem, it's hardware. Compilers tend to take advantage of the CPU-specific SIMD registers and instructions, or you can use them explicitly.

Writing generic SIMD code is more portable. C has libraries, and Zig also has vector primitives available through built-in functions.

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Re:Zig self hosted compiler is now capable of building itself by pjmlp on Saturday April 16, 2022 @04:14PM (#31055716)
Any language can have libraries, C is not special here, nor is Zig.

In fact, a few GC enabled languages have explicit SIMD support.

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