Does dmd have SSE intrinsics?
bearophile
bearophileHUGS at lycos.com
Tue Sep 22 04:09:09 PDT 2009
Robert Jacques:
> Yes, but the unaligned version is slower, even for aligned data.
This is true today, but in future it may become a little less true, thanks to improvements in the CPUs.
> Also, another issue for game/graphic/robotic programmers is the ability to
> return fixed length arrays from functions. Though struct wrappers
> mitigates this.
Why doesn't D allow to return fixed-sized arrays from functions? It's a basic feature that I can find useful in many situations, it looks more useful than most of the last features implemented in D2.
Bye,
bearophile
More information about the Digitalmars-d
mailing list