Use SIMD to accelerate comment lexing

Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue Jun 2 11:20:50 PDT 2015


On Tuesday, 2 June 2015 at 17:54:38 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
> 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.

Well, Manu would know that a lot better than I would. I hadn't 
even heard of SIMD before he got Walter to put it into the 
language, and I have yet to use it, though I do think that I need 
to look into it at some point to see where I could take advantage 
of it.

- Jonathan M Davis


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