Why 16Mib static array size limit?

[Yuxuan Shui via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 16 August 2016 at 01:28:05 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
> On 08/15/2016 12:09 PM, Ali Çehreli wrote:
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> Could you please help me understand the following results, 
> possibly by analyzing the produced assembly?
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There seem to be two things at work here: 1) when not accessed 
via pointer, access to the array is going through TCB everytime 
(for it's a TLS variable) 2) LDC is able to vectorize the pointer 
version but not the array version.

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