Can we have ucent ?

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On 10/30/18 2:23 PM, Stanislav Blinov wrote:
> On Tuesday, 30 October 2018 at 18:07:23 UTC, Basile B. wrote:
> 
>> I think that the feature could be implemented as compiler special 
>> functions that would be located in druntime...
> 
> Umm, no, thank you very much. It's bad enough that array operations have 
> to go through druntime. Arithmetic types have no business being there 
> whatsoever.

Well, wouldn't it be like a backup implementation if the CPU doesn't 
have 128-bit registers?

This is actually something I would EXPECT to be in druntime, since it's 
very platform/compiler specific.

array operations are just there because of legacy (at least in the form 
they are in).

-Steve