OT (partially): about promotion of integers

[deadalnix]

On Wednesday, 12 December 2012 at 22:36:35 UTC, ixid wrote:
> On Wednesday, 12 December 2012 at 21:27:35 UTC, Walter Bright 
> wrote:
>> On 12/12/2012 3:12 AM, foobar wrote:
>>> Regarding performance and overflow checking, the example you 
>>> give is x86
>>> specific. What about other platforms? For example ARM is very 
>>> popular nowadays
>>> in the mobile world and there are many more smart-phones out 
>>> there than there
>>> are PCs. Is the same issue exists and if not (I suspect not, 
>>> but really have no
>>> idea) should D be geared towards current platforms or future 
>>> ones?
>>
>> I don't know the ARM instruction set.
>
> I think it would be very hard, at this stage, to argue that you 
> should be putting your effort into ARM rather than x86. It's a 
> nice to have that doesn't seem very relevant to gaining 
> traction for D, areas like bioinformatics seem more relevant.

http://santyhammer.blogspot.com/2012/11/something-is-changing-in-desktop.html