Three articles on D

[jmh530]

On Thursday, 11 June 2020 at 23:08:45 UTC, tastyminerals wrote:
> On Thursday, 11 June 2020 at 22:11:41 UTC, data pulverizer 
> wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 9 June 2020 at 21:30:24 UTC, tastyminerals wrote:
>>> FYI, I have a couple of Julia benchmarks timed against NumPy 
>>> here:
>>> https://github.com/tastyminerals/mir_benchmarks#general-purpose-multi-thread
>>
>> Interesting. There is a recent Julia package called 
>> LoopVectorization which by all accounts performs much better 
>> than base Julia: 
>> https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-loopvectorization/32843
>
> True, a very solid improvement indeed.
> Sigh, wish D received as much attention as Julia continues to 
> get.

It sounds like @avx for Julia is a bit like @fastmath [1]. I was 
re-reading this [2] recently. You may find interesting.

[1] 
https://wiki.dlang.org/LDC-specific_language_changes#.40.28ldc.attributes.fastmath.29
[2] 
http://johanengelen.github.io/ldc/2016/10/11/Math-performance-LDC.html