Mir GLAS vs Intel MKL: which is faster?

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 9/26/16 2:11 PM, Ilya Yaroshenko wrote:
> On Monday, 26 September 2016 at 11:56:39 UTC, Edwin van Leeuwen wrote:
>> On Monday, 26 September 2016 at 11:46:19 UTC, Johan Engelen wrote:
>>> On Monday, 26 September 2016 at 11:11:20 UTC, Joseph Rushton Wakeling
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> The broader topic of what compiler features Mir GLAS uses could be
>>>> the topic of an entire blog post in its own right, and might be very
>>>> interesting.
>>>
>>> I guess this is my terrain. I'll think about writing that blog post :)
>>>
>>> Specific LDC features that I see in GLAS are:
>>>
>>> - __traits(targetHasFeature, ...)  , see
>>> https://wiki.dlang.org/LDC-specific_language_changes#targetHasFeature
>>>
>>> - @fastmath, see
>>> https://wiki.dlang.org/LDC-specific_language_changes#.40.28ldc.attributes.fastmath.29
>>>
>>>
>>> - Modules ldc.simd and ldc.intrinsics.
>>>
>>> - Extended allowed sizes for __vector (still very limited)
>>>
>>> To get an idea of what is different for LDC and DMD, this PR removed
>>> support for DMD: https://github.com/libmir/mir/pull/347
>>>
>>> -Johan
>>
>> Ah, I was not aware that DMD support was dropped completely. I think
>> that is a real shame, and it makes it _much_ less likely that I will
>> use mir in my own projects, let alone as a dependency in another library.
>
> Shame is that D is not popular. I think that Mir can replace C / C++ for
> hight performance application. And became the best industry system
> language.
>
> My goal is not a package for D community. My goal is a library for
> industry. A library that can involve new comers and extend D community
> multiple times.

I think we need to make it a point to support Mir in dmd. -- Andrei