DMD 1.034 and 2.018 releases

Jarrett Billingsley kb3ctd2 at yahoo.com
Sat Aug 9 19:50:11 PDT 2008


"Christopher Wright" <dhasenan at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:g7ljal$2i84$1 at digitalmars.com...
> 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.

I think we could see a lot more improvement from using vector ops to perform 
SIMD operations.  They are just begging for it. 




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