Forums suffering Priority Inversion with Livelock

[Daniel]

downs Wrote:

> 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 1) The x86-32 platform is obsolete, and D still can't run x86-64, and only supports SSE if you hand code it in assembler.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

Cool stuff, downs.  Looks like it'll be the GDC then for all my future language-based programming.  Now I just need to throw together another x86-64 Linux again somewhere.