Forums suffering Priority Inversion with Livelock

[Fawzi Mohamed]

On 2008-04-04 10:24:30 +0200, downs <default_357-line at yahoo.de> said:

> 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.

ok, that was my impression too, but I fear that in the end I also 
contribued to it :)

>> 1) The x86-32 platform is obsolete, and D still can't run x86-64, and 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 use x86-64 with gdc and both phobos and tango.
I had some issues setting up everything, but using svn version 
everything (but SSE) should work

> 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.

great news!

Fawzi

> 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