primitive vector types

[bearophile]

Don:

> This scheme doesn't cover:
...
> and the byte/word operations:
...
> So it looks to me as though with the minimal language changes, we could 
> get almost complete SIMD support, with excellent syntax.

Do you consider things from the short future too?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSE5
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Vector_Extensions

Bye,
bearophile