suggestion: basic SIMD types modelled after Cg/HLSL

[Thomas Kuehne]

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Craig Black schrieb am 2006-07-12:
> Good ideas.  Perhaps it would be easier to integrate Cg/HLSL w/ D so that 
> they could work well together.  Perhaps Cg/HLSL code could  be inlined like 
> assembler.  That way the full functionality of these languages could be 
> leveraged.  I don't know how difficult this would be to implement though.

The suggestion sounds good to me, however implementing an optimizing
compiler that uses SSE 1/2/3 and MMX is no small task.
Maybe GCC's -mfpmath=sse might provide a starting point for SSE support
in GDC?

Thomas


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