LLVM: field addition with saturated fields #456
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This PR merges several experiments to implement modular addition in pure LLVM IR so that instead of writing an assembly backend for each target we can generate multiplatform code from LLVM IR, especially for ARM and AMDGPU as they support addition-with-carry and also SIMD, without doing vectorization myself.
That was to try to address:
Unfortunately, compilers are still inefficient at translating modular addition into optimal code.
See #357:
Description of experiments: