start on SIMD documentation
Walter Bright
newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Mon Jan 16 11:32:26 PST 2012
On 1/16/2012 8:38 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Either approach should work perfectly fine; it "cheats in style" by using an
> existing language construct that exactly matches the special-cased capability.
> The current approach cheats badly - it messes with the language's fabric by
> defining a construct that's not a function but looks like one.
You're right, it is cheating.
> I'd be in your debt if you could at least do the right thing when defining new
> intrinsics.
We can talk about that some more. At some point, there's going to have to be
some compiler magic going on.
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