core.cpuid

[Andrew Wiley]

On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 10:55 PM, Chante <udontspamme at never.will.u> wrote:

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> "Manu" <turkeyman at gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:mailman.586.1319935753.24802.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
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> > What's the deal with core.cpuid?
>
> I think they just want the "mainstream"
> ("sheeple"/"followers"/"believers"/"90210_ers"/"younsters", etc.). If you
> don't fit into their petri-dish and aren't cog to add to their
> self-aggrandizement, they won't let you log in anymore.
>
>
>
There are a few things like this around, and if you look far enough back,
it's quite simple why things like this happened. Originally, when D was
new, DMD essentially was the definition of D, x86 was the only real
architecture around, with x86_64 starting to come into play. Now we have
more compilers, and x86/64 isn't looking quite like the monopoly it used to
be, so this interface will probably need to change.

There's no conspiracy here, it's just "what worked" back in the day, and
either it's unused or unimportant such that no one has tried to update it
thus far. Since this is in core, it's mostly Sean's territory, but I'm sure
he'd welcome ideas.
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