core.intrinsics

[Stefan Koch via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 13 October 2016 at 22:44:13 UTC, Dominikus Dittes 
Scherkl wrote:
> On Thursday, 13 October 2016 at 19:52:57 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote:
>> On Thursday, 13 October 2016 at 19:49:42 UTC, Johan Engelen 
>> wrote:
>>> On Thursday, 13 October 2016 at 19:35:08 UTC, Stefan Koch 
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Please share your thoughts and tell me what other intrinsic 
>>>> functions could/should be added.
>>>
>>> I think the name should be different from "intrinsics", so 
>>> that it can also contain functions like "likely-functionptr" 
>>> / "likely-class" optimization functions (e.g. the is_likely 
>>> template from the other thread).
>>>
>>> -Johan
>>
>> What name would you suggest then ?
> how about "fuzzylogic"?

It has nothing todo with fuzzy logic.
AFAIK fuzzy-logic deals with optimizing boolean logic in order to 
by represented by smaller transistor networks.

core.optimize suggests that there is some functionality that 
optimises things for you which is not the case.

The only thing this should provide are compiler-specific 
low-level tools to affect code-gen.
in as protable a manner as possible.

I am especially intrested in being able to provide hints for 
code-layout.
That does not only affect basic block-placement but also the 
which functions will be placed next to each other if possble.

If anyone has good suggestions as to how such facilites may be 
named I am all ears.