Reply To: The Compiler

Watching the Compiler talk it occurred to me that it might be a good idea to include “microcoded” instructions in genAsm. Linus has a tendency to wax poetic about x86 and one of his favorite things about it is the availability of instructions like rep mov. It seems like having Mill getAsm instructions that mirror the semantics of C primitives like strcpy, memcpy, memset, etc might be useful. Of course no Mill member would implement them but they could be specialized differently on different architectures in ways that might have important performance implications.