Use SIMD to accelerate comment lexing

[Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d]

On 2 June 2015 at 19:25, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d <
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:

> 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
>

I was being deliberately quizzical because there are different takes on
what you would call simd in the language, what set of types are available
to you, what intrinsics are exposed (and how they are exposed), etc.
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