D Language 2.0

[retard]

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 00:36:47 -0500, bearophile wrote:

> What if
> tomorrow the registers become 256 or 1024 bits wide? D language must be
> used 10 years from now, when you have 2048 bits wide registers too, you
> can't keep adding wider and wider built in types. It's better to have a
> way to represent bit arrays and to perform bitwise operations among
> them, as LLVM already does. Wait, that's what array operation syntax is
> already designed to do :-)

The wider registers will most likely be vector registers in the future. 
It has often little sense to express wider value ranges than the 64-bit 
ints represent. Even 16 or 32 bits is large enough in many cases.