Forums suffering Priority Inversion with Livelock

[downs]

Daniel wrote:
> I don't mean to rain on anyone's parade, but I'm noticing a livelock priority inversion in the forums.  Everyone's spending months arguing about constness, when there are clear, simple, and higher priority issues to resolve.

Agreed.

> 1) The x86-32 platform is obsolete, and D still can't run x86-64, and only supports SSE if you hand code it in assembler.  One step away from being targetted to 16-bit x286.  x86-64 has been out for a 5 years now.

I've managed to make autovectorization (automatic SSE generation from loops) work in a highly experimental version of GDC 4.2.3, with lots of help from IRC.

I'll post a patch in a while, with HUGE "experimental" stickers (want to get the stress test results first), but it works in principle.

Also, all of tools should in theory work on 64-bit (even the assembler stuff) - I'll test it in a few days on a new box I'm putting together.

GDC also generates faster code than DMD in many cases :)

 --feep