Naive node.js faster than naive LDC2?

[kinke]

On Saturday, 22 August 2020 at 16:15:14 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> 3) std.math.fmax calling the C library (involving a PIC 
> indirection to a
> shared library as opposed to inlineable native D code).

Yes, and that's because there's only a `real` version for fmax. 
If upstream Phobos had proper double/float overloads, we could 
uncomment the LDC-specific implementations using LLVM intrinsics, 
which use (obviously much faster) SSE instructions:

https://github.com/ldc-developers/phobos/blob/1366c7d5be65def916f030785fc1f1833342497d/std/math.d#L7785-L7798

Number crunching in D could be significantly accelerated if the 
people interested in it showed some love for std.math, but we've 
had this topic for years.