SIMD support...

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 1/7/12 10:10 AM, Don wrote:
> Sorry Andrei, I have to disagree with that in the strongest possible
> terms. I would have mentioned AAs as a very strong argument in the
> opposite direction!
>
> Moving AAs from a built-in to a library type has been an unmitigated
> disaster from the implementation side. And it has so far brought us
> *nothing* in return. Not "hardly anything", but *NOTHING*.

It would be premature to conclude from this as the conversion is incomplete.

> I don't even
> have any idea of what good could possibly come from it.

Using static calls for hashing and comparisons instead of indirect calls 
comes to mind.


Andrei