core.simd woes

David Nadlinger see at klickverbot.at
Tue Oct 9 09:48:04 PDT 2012


On Tuesday, 9 October 2012 at 10:29:25 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
> Vector types already support the same basic operations that can 
> be
> done on D arrays.  So that itself guarantees cross platform.

That's obviously true, but not at all enough for most of the
"interesting" use cases of vector types (otherwise, you could use
array operations just as well). You need at least some sort of
broadcasting/swizzling support for it to be interesting.

David


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