Ready for review: new std.uni

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Mon Jan 14 01:03:25 PST 2013


On 1/14/2013 12:54 AM, jerro wrote:
>> I.e. D's approach is to fix the language to support vector semantics, rather
>> than trying to back-asswards fit it into the optimizer.
>
> I agree that adding SIMD types and operations to the languages is a better
> approach than autovectorization. I'd just like to point out that DMD's backend
> still has serious problems regarding SIMD support, which makes getting SIMD code
> to work with DMD a pain. For example, see those two bugs:
>
> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=9304
> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=9200

Yeah, I know about those, I'll fix 'em. The SIMD support in the compiler is 
still young.



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