Some languages, such as C++, allow for specialisation via templates and compile time evabulation (constexpr). It would be possible to detect when the size of the data type matches one of the integer types, is a POD, is comparable via memcmp, etc to use SIMD optimised algorithms.
It is looking like C++ 26 will get compile time reflection, which would make things like this even more feasible.
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Some languages, such as C++, allow for specialisation via templates and compile time evabulation (constexpr). It would be possible to detect when the size of the data type matches one of the integer types, is a POD, is comparable via memcmp, etc to use SIMD optimised algorithms.
It is looking like C++ 26 will get compile time reflection, which would make things like this even more feasible.