core.intrinsics

[Johan Engelen via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 14 October 2016 at 11:17:55 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> On 10/14/2016 05:24 AM, Johan Engelen wrote:
>> I like "hints".
>
> How many other hints are out there? -- Andrei

Things that come to mind:
- this value is probably X  (bool, int, pointer)
- this type is probably Y
- this function is likely hot/cold (UDA)
- this data is likely to be accessed soon (_could_ lead to a 
prefetch)
- this member field is hot/cold (iirc, Class members may be 
re-ordered) (UDA)