start on SIMD documentation

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 1/13/12 7:42 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 1/13/2012 3:51 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 1/13/12 4:57 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> On 1/13/2012 2:31 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>>> People will want to pass a variable for op. Would that work?
>>>
>>> It'll currently fail miserably - it has to be a constant. Otherwise, we
>>> have runtime code generation. While not impossible, it is a large
>>> increase in scope.
>>
>> Then probably the operation should be simd!opcode(arguments). If a
>> function is
>> intrinsic it shouldn't have special syntactic rights.
>
> You're right, I'm just not too thrilled about generating hundreds of
> template instantiations.

How is that possibly different from what you have now?

Andrei