intel-intrinsics v1.13.0

[Serg Gini]

On Sunday, 7 December 2025 at 00:42:11 UTC, Guillaume Piolat 
wrote:
> DUB package intel-intrinsics is out in version v1.13.0.
> Now with support for all AVX and AVX2 intrinsics.
>
> - Supported: SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, BMI2, AVX, 
> AVX2
> - Target x86, x86_64, arm64, arm32. All intrinsics have 
> emulation/alt paths.
> - DMD, LDC, or GDC

Congratulations! Very nice to have this package.

> Now: should you use AVX for consumer software in D?

I would say - yes as much as you can! If it is not AVX512, but 
AVX and AVX2 could be applied.
Maybe the flow could be started with auto-vec for simpler code 
maintenance.
But nowadays, AVX(2) is supported pretty widely I think.

Projects for inspiration could be taken from Lemire and Ash.
Their projects SIMD-powered used in other consumer products.
simdutf, simdjson, usearch and others

https://github.com/lemire (blog https://lemire.me/blog/)
https://github.com/ashvardanian (blog 
https://ashvardanian.com/archives/)

> - The reach isn't very good, very nascent support on Microsoft 
> Prism and Apple Rosetta.
> - In arm, neon vectors are 128-bit anyway.
> - You will encounter: https://github.com/dlang/dub/issues/3080 
> (unless using redub or --combined)

Probably separate ARM targeted arm-intrinsics package could be 
created with targeting:
- NEON
- SVE
- SVE2