# The performance of saturating operations or adding intrinsics

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/the-performance-of-saturating-operations-or-adding-intrinsics/48575>\
**Category:** Performance\
**Created:** [October 18, 2020, 6:07am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/the-performance-of-saturating-operations-or-adding-intrinsics/48575 "2020-10-18T06:07:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![simeonschaub](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/simeonschaub/32/216566_2.png) [@simeonschaub](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/simeonschaub)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2020, 11:15pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/the-performance-of-saturating-operations-or-adding-intrinsics/48575/5 "2020-10-18T23:15:39Z")

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> [@kimikage](#):
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> I think it might be worth supporting [LLVM’s saturation arithmetic intrinsics](https://llvm.org/docs/LangRef.html#saturation-arithmetic-intrinsics) in Julia v1.6.

Isn’t that already possible using `llvmcall`?

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