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Rollup merge of rust-lang#124874 - jedbrown:float-mul-add-fast, r=sae…
…thlin intrinsics fmuladdf{32,64}: expose llvm.fmuladd.* semantics Add intrinsics `fmuladd{f32,f64}`. This computes `(a * b) + c`, to be fused if the code generator determines that (i) the target instruction set has support for a fused operation, and (ii) that the fused operation is more efficient than the equivalent, separate pair of `mul` and `add` instructions. https://llvm.org/docs/LangRef.html#llvm-fmuladd-intrinsic The codegen_cranelift uses the `fma` function from libc, which is a correct implementation, but without the desired performance semantic. I think this requires an update to cranelift to expose a suitable instruction in its IR. I have not tested with codegen_gcc, but it should behave the same way (using `fma` from libc). --- This topic has been discussed a few times on Zulip and was suggested, for example, by `@workingjubilee` in [Effect of fma disabled](https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/122651-general/topic/Effect.20of.20fma.20disabled/near/274179331).
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