core.cpuid

Chante udontspamme at never.will.u
Sun Oct 30 23:26:45 PDT 2011


Alex Rønne Petersen wrote:
> On 30-10-2011 06:05, Andrew Wiley wrote:
>> On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 10:55 PM, Chante <udontspamme at never.will.u>
>> wrote: "Manu" <turkeyman at gmail.com <mailto:turkeyman at gmail.com>> wrote
>>     in message
>>     news:mailman.586.1319935753.24802.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
>>
>>      > 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.
>
> I actually do use core.cpuid and find it very useful.

You are a stupid man. She is an old hag.




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