Do you think if statement as expression would be nice to have in D?

[Guillaume Piolat]

On Tuesday, 7 June 2022 at 21:09:08 UTC, Bruce Carneal wrote:
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> 3) It's measurably (slightly) faster in many instances (it 
> helps that I can shape the operand flows for this app)

Depends on the loop, for example LLVM can vectorize llvm_sqrt
https://d.godbolt.org/z/6xaTKnn9z

but not llvm_exp / llvm_cos / llvm_sin / llvm_log

https://d.godbolt.org/z/Pc34967vc

for such loops I have to go __vector