primitive vector types

[Jason House]

Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote:

> Denis Koroskin wrote:
> > I don't see any reason why float4 can't be made a library type.
> 
> Yah, I was thinking the same:
> 
> struct float4
> {
>      __align(16) float[4] data; // right syntax and value?
>      alias data this;
> }
> 
> This looks like something that should go into std.matrix pronto. It even 
> has value semantics even though fixed arrays don't :o/.


I've looked for this functionality in std.bitmanip before.  I never thought to look in std.matrix.  Fixed size bit arrays seems like an obvious choice for SIMD optimization.