DMD 1.034 and 2.018 releases

Christopher Wright dhasenan at gmail.com
Sat Aug 9 19:21:08 PDT 2008


bearophile wrote:
> Walter Bright:
>> Can you make it faster?
> 
> Lot of people today have 2 (or even 4 cores), the order of the computation of those ops is arbitrary, so a major (nearly linear, hopefully) speedup will probably come as soon all the cores are used. This job splitting is probably an advantage even then the ops aren't computed by asm code.

The overhead of creating a new thread for this would be significant. 
You'd probably be better off using a regular loop for arrays that are 
not huge.


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