SIMD support...

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On Sunday, 8 January 2012 at 01:48:34 UTC, Manu wrote:
> On 8 January 2012 03:44, Walter Bright 
> <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote:
>
>> On 1/7/2012 4:54 PM, Peter Alexander wrote:
>>
>>> I think it simply requires a lot of work in the compiler.
>>>
>>
>> Not that much work. Most of it segues nicely into the previous 
>> work I did
>> supporting the XMM floating point code gen.
>>
>
> What is this previous work you speak of? Is there already XMM 
> stuff in
> there somewhere?

DMD (at least 64 bit on linux, I'm not sure about 32 bit) now 
uses XMM registers and instructions that work on them (addss, 
addsd, mulsd...) for scalar floating point operations.