DMD 1.034 and 2.018 releases

[Michael P.]

Walter Bright Wrote:

> This one has (finally) got array operations implemented. For those who 
> want to show off their leet assembler skills, the initial assembler 
> implementation code is in phobos/internal/array*.d. Burton Radons wrote 
> the assembler. Can you make it faster?
> 
> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/1.0/changelog.html
> http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.1.034.zip
> 
> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/changelog.html
> http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.2.018.zip


This will probably make me sound like an idiot, but what are these array operations everyone's so stoked about? I've only been learning D for a week and a half, fill me in!
BTW, nice update!