suggestion: basic SIMD types modelled after Cg/HLSL

[Mike Capp]

In article <mqgho3-487.ln1 at birke.kuehne.cn>, Thomas Kuehne says...
>
>Craig Black schrieb am 2006-07-12:
>> Good ideas.  Perhaps it would be easier to integrate Cg/HLSL w/ D so that 
>> they could work well together.  Perhaps Cg/HLSL code could  be inlined like 
>> assembler.  That way the full functionality of these languages could be 
>> leveraged.  I don't know how difficult this would be to implement though.
>
>The suggestion sounds good to me, however implementing an optimizing
>compiler that uses SSE 1/2/3 and MMX is no small task.
>Maybe GCC's -mfpmath=sse might provide a starting point for SSE support
>in GDC?

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cheers
Mike