std.complex MAY I REMIND YOU?

[Matti Niemenmaa]

JMNorris wrote:
> Matti Niemenmaa <see_signature at for.real.address> wrote in
> news:fptoso$24mc$1 at digitalmars.com: 
>> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/1.0/cppcomplex.html seems to be a good
>> summary. 
>>
> This is a good summary of the advantages of making complex a core type.  I 
> thought Walter was saying that compiler advances are erasing those 
> advantages, and that is why it complex numbers will no longer be a core 
> type.  But that is what I don't understand.

Well, it appears to be all about optimization: everything else can be done in a 
library. Some "syntactical aesthetics" will be lost, but nothing else should be.

So all it really takes is a compiler smart enough to optimize the operations on 
complex numbers, which I guess is what Walter meant when he mentioned "compiler 
advances" --- compilers these days are smarter, especially when it comes to 
optimization, than they used to be.

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