Using AVX intrinsics with LDC

[Guillaume Piolat]

On Tuesday, 15 May 2018 at 17:21:49 UTC, Jeff wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm a beginner in D (I come from C++/Python), but I'm having 
> great fun learning the language reading Ali's book. I'm using 
> LDC as compiler, and I would like to use intrinsics, but I have 
> difficulties to find the Intel intrinsics equivalent. Here are 
> the functions I'm looking for :
>
> _mm_cvtsi64x_si128
> _mm256_sll_epi64
> _mm256_movemask_epi8
>
> Is there a way to call them ? Is there an Intel intrinsics to 
> LDC intrinsics guide somewhere ?
> Thanks for your help !

I've started doing such a translation as a library here: 
http://code.dlang.org/packages/intel-intrinsics

However, no AVX yet