std.simd

[Manu]

On 16 March 2012 01:32, Robert Jacques <sandford at jhu.edu> wrote:

> On Thu, 15 Mar 2012 14:02:15 -0500, Manu <turkeyman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 15 March 2012 20:35, Robert Jacques <sandford at jhu.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 15 Mar 2012 12:09:58 -0500, Manu <turkeyman at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>> [snip]
>
>> This sounds reasonable. However, please realize that if you wish to use
>>> the short vector names (i.e. float4, float3, float2, etc) you should
>>> support the full set with a decent range of operations and methods.
>>> Several
>>> people (myself included) have written similar short vector libraries; I
>>> think having having short vectors in phobos is important, but having one
>>> library provide float4 and another float2 is less than ideal, even if not
>>> all of the types could leverage the SMID backend. For myself, the killer
>>> feature for such a library would be have the CUDA compatible alignments
>>> for
>>> the types. (or an equivalent enum to the effect)
>>>
>>>
>> I can see how you come to that conclusion, but I generally feel that
>> that's
>> a problem for a higher layer of library.
>>
>
> Then you should to leave namespace room for that higher level library.
>

I haven't stolen any names that aren't already taken by core.simd. I just
want to claim those primitive types already aliased in std.simd to enhance
them with some more useful base-level functionality.
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