julia> clamp(x, lo, hi) = x < lo ? lo : x > hi ? hi : x
clamp (generic function with 1 method)
julia> @code_native clamp(2.0f0, -1.0f0, 1.0f0)
.text
vminss %xmm0, %xmm2, %xmm2
vcmpnltss %xmm1, %xmm0, %xmm0
vblendvps %xmm0, %xmm2, %xmm1, %xmm0
retq
Looks like it might even be better? I'm not quite sure but the mnemonics are longer so they must be better ;)
Does Julia have a JIT? If so, maybe LLVM's x86 backend could do better if given the codegen flags corresponding to what Julia detects is available natively.
