BLADE 0.2Alpha: Vector operations with mixins, expression templates,

[Don Clugston]

Bill Baxter wrote:
> Georg Wrede wrote:
>> Dan wrote:
>>> Walter Bright Wrote:
>>>
>>>> Just wait 'till you get AST macros!
>>>>
>>>> But this stuff is *awesome*. Scratch DDJ, I don't want to wait 6 
>>>> months. This needs to get out now, - I suggest www.artima.com, 
>>>> followed up with dzone, slashdot, and digg.
>>>>
>>>> It would also be a real treat to have you present this at Amazon's D 
>>>> conference in August.
>>>
>>>
>>> Wow.  That's the most excited I've seen Walter.  : )
>>
>> LOL, have to admit I agree!!!
> 
> It really is very cool and all, but did I just miss the benchmarks?  I 
> need numbers, man!   You can generate all the assembly you want, but at 
> the end of the day its the numbers that people care about.
> 
> --bb

You're right, but it wasn't posted as a finished product!
I post this sort of thing every now and again, largely to give Walter 
some feedback as to what the language is doing at the bleeding edge. In 
this case, I thought it would be relevant to AST macro development.
Also I posted this to get an idea if there was much interest in this 
sort of thing -- I don't have a great deal of free time, so I want to 
make good use of it. I only got the code working a few days ago.
The speed of the code will likely be affected by how well DMD optimises 
the tuple copying. I even haven't looked at what code it's actually 
generating.