D for Game Development

[Dmitry Olshansky via Digitalmars-d]

On 09-Aug-2015 15:27, Manu via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On 9 August 2015 at 20:04, Dmitry Olshansky via Digitalmars-d
> <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
>> On 09-Aug-2015 12:33, Manu via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>>>
>>> On 9 August 2015 at 13:34, Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d
>>> <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 9/08/2015 2:40 p.m., Manu via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>>>>>
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>> [snip]
>>>>
>>>> Even though it is hard for you to still be here, I hope you do continue
>>>> to
>>>> help D grow. This is a good community, we just need time before real
>>>> adoption. E.g. we are only just now starting to unify projects.
>>>
>>>
>>> Cheers, but don't get me wrong; I've barely contributed anything of
>>> value other than advocacy and little bits and pieces here and there. I
>>> don't deserve any credit, I just complain about things that make it
>>> impossible for me to get on with my work.
>>
>>
>> std.simd though would be awesome to have ;)
>
> Yeah, I keep coming back to it, and getting myself stuck with various
> troubles making it work good. I'm perpetually unhappy with my code,
> and I just need a really good block of time to get through it.
> If people want to review std.color and help get that off my
> short-list, I promise I'll make std.simd my top priority :P

Well, let us march towards std.experimental.color then :)
I'll see what I need about it or maybe it's plenty good enough for me 
already.

One thing I've hit with color in the past is painfully slow bulk array 
at once color conversions. In 2013 my CV app for an embbeded linux 
device had spent ~50% of time gray-scaling input image(!) that is until 
I coded a bit of NEON to fix that to ~11%. And note I'm no SIMD guru so 
I had spent an evening worth of time to test a few versions but the 
result was well worth it.

> I also haven't had need for it in my recent work, so it's not being
> motivated by necessity since I haven't been game-dev-ing much.
>


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Dmitry Olshansky