SIMD support...

[Peter Alexander]

On 8/01/12 12:14 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 1/7/2012 1:28 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> But most always it's NOT, and definitely not in the
>> context of a complex data structure like a hash table. I also think
>> that adding
>> a hecatomb of built-in types and functions has smells, though to a
>> good extent I
>> concede to the necessity of it.
>
> I want to reiterate that I don't think there is a way with the current
> compiler technology to make a library SIMD type that will perform as
> well as a builtin one, and those who use SIMD tend to be extremely
> demanding of performance.

Considering the that entire purpose of SIMD is performance, I think the 
demand is reasonable :-)