[Semi OT] Language for Game Development talk

[po via Digitalmars-d]

> Perhaps a (part of) language more fit/helpful/nice for that 
> purpose/use can be invented.
>
> Bye,
> bearophile

  It isn't as hard as he pretends to write SoA code in C++. In 
fact it is possible to abstract the underlying data you are 
operating on, and replace it with vector type

Example resembling his butt ugly code: operates only on 1 float 
at a time
struct Vec2{
   float x,y;
};
void Add2(Vec2* points, int howMany){
   for(int i = 0;i<howMany;++i){
      points[i].x += 2.0f;
      points[i].x += 2.0f;
    }
}

How I would do it, uses AVX256:

template<class T>
struct Vec2{
   T x,y;
};
typedef Vec2<float8> vec2_8f;

//float8 is a wrapper around AVX256 8 wide float type that 
behaves exactly like a //normal float but is actually 8 floats.

void Add2(range<vec2_8f> points){
   for(auto& p:points){
     p += 2.0f;
   }
}

C++ can abstract away the fact that float8 is actually 
implemented using a bunch of AVX intrinsics. Using his approach 
he'd be manually writing intrinsics until the cows came home.