start on SIMD documentation

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Fri Jan 13 14:55:36 PST 2012


On 1/13/2012 11:06 AM, Peter Alexander wrote:
> Also, slight bikeshedding issue: I'm not so sure on using names like int4 for
> vectors. You see things like int32 a lot to mean a 32-bit integer, or int8 to
> mean an 8-bit integer. Using this notation for vectors may be confusing.

Consider also that the int8 is an alias, not a keyword. This means that the 
compiler will inform you of any ambiguities, as well as allow:

    core.simd.int8

to disambiguate.


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