SIMD support...

[Manu]

On 6 January 2012 05:27, Walter Bright <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote:

> On 1/5/2012 7:07 PM, Manu wrote:
>
>> The only thing the language needs to think about is a single typeless,
>> 128bit,
>> 16 byte aligned value.
>>
>
> Currently, you can do this on 64 bit Linux:
>
>  union V128
>  {
>    void[16] v;
>    real dummy;
>  }
>
> as reals are aligned on 16 byte boundaries. I wonder how far that can be
> pushed.
>

You still haven't expressed the concept of the SIMD register anywhere in
the language. The code gen needs to assign XMM regs, and schedule all
appropriate loads/stores/etc...
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