SIMD support...

[bearophile]

Walter:

> I've worked a lot with large assembler programs. As you know, EAX has no type. 
> The assembler code would constantly shift the type of things that were in EAX, 
> sometimes a pointer, sometimes an int, sometimes a ushort, sometimes treating a 
> pointer as an int, etc. I can unequivocably state that this typeless approach is 
> confusing, buggy, hard to untangle, and ultimately a freedom that is not 
> justifiable.

There is even some desire of a typed assembly. It's not easy to design and implement, but it seems able to avoid some bugs:
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/talc/papers.html

Bye,
bearophile