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Re:Let's write a setjmp by umanwizard on Sunday February 12, 2023 @10:25AM (#34763496)
> it is a clear and precise syntax for expressing the operation the machine actually performs.

No it’s not. Your compiler will almost certainly translate this into vector instructions, at least.

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Re:Let's write a setjmp by umanwizard on Sunday February 12, 2023 @03:18PM (#34766446)
For posterity, I was apparently wrong. It doesn’t autovectorize, with gcc 12.2 -O3 on godbolt, at least.
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