On Thursday, 23 June 2016 at 21:03:08 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: >> However you should test how it performs against the LLVM >> intrinsics >> available in LDC, e.g.: >> >> llvm.intrinsincs.llvm_pow and llvm_powi (i = integer). > > Cool! Is that a CPU operation? > > > Andrei It is going to depend on the target.