Use SIMD to accelerate comment lexing

[Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 1 June 2015 at 20:18:19 UTC, Brian Schott wrote:
> On Monday, 1 June 2015 at 19:38:59 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14641
>>
>> Manu, our resident god of vector instructions, do you want to 
>> take this on?
>
> libdparse does this already. I added some information to that 
> bug report that may be useful.

Honestly, I'm quite impressed with what I've heard you say about 
the lengths that you've gone to in order to optimize your lexer 
and parser. _Very_ cool. And all the better if dmd gets some of 
the same optimizations.

- Jonathan M Davis