Use SIMD to accelerate comment lexing

Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue Jun 2 10:25:45 PDT 2015


On Tuesday, 2 June 2015 at 17:24:09 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
> On 2 June 2015 at 19:11, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d <
> digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tuesday, 2 June 2015 at 15:08:07 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>>
>>> Just make it work with one compiler on one platform, the most 
>>> convenient
>>> one. We can extend it to others later.
>>>
>>
>> Plus, within a few months, we may have switched over to ddmd 
>> (hopefully),
>> in which case, you can just do it the D way.
>>
>>
> And what would the D way be?

We have simd in the language, so we can use that, whereas Manu 
was talking about how he would have to do it differently in C/C++.

- Jonathan M Davis


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