This makes it so that we no longer use a LUT (Look-Up Table):
* The code is much simpler and easier to understand now.
* Using a LUT means we rely on a warm cache.
Relying on the cache like this results in inconsistent performance and in many cases codegen will be worse.
Also as @topolarity once pointed out, in some cases while it seems like the code may branch, it actually doesn't:
https://github.com/ziglang/zig/pull/11629#issuecomment-1213641429
* Other languages' standard libraries don't do this either.
JFF I wanted to see what other languages codegen compared to us now:
https://rust.godbolt.org/z/Te4ax9Edf, https://zig.godbolt.org/z/nTbYedWKv
So we are pretty much on par or better than other languages now.
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