Unlike x86, fmin/fmax are single instructions, not function calls. They
are much much faster than doing a comparison, then branching based on its
results. With this, audiodsp.vector_clipf gets almost twice as fast, and
a properly unrollled version of it gets 4-5x faster, on SiFive-U74.
This is only the low-hanging fruit: FFMIN and FFMAX are presumably
affected as well.
This likely applies to other instruction sets with native IEEE floats,
especially those lacking a conditional select instruction.
As with the earlier bswap change, all versions of GCC and Clang that
support RISC-V support the popcount built-ins, so we can just use them
instead of inline assembler.