start on SIMD documentation

[Peter Alexander]

On 13/01/12 10:31 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 1/13/12 2:41 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 1/13/2012 12:27 PM, Peter Alexander wrote:
>>> On 13/01/12 8:02 PM, Mehrdad wrote:
>>>> Er... is there any reason why we're using such a cryptic PXOR value
>>>> instead of operator overloading?
>>>
>>> I imagine Walter will add the operator overloads later.
>>
>> Right. simd() is just the bottom layer building block. It's a compiler
>> intrinsic, and I don't want to make every overload a compiler intrinsic.
>
> People will want to pass a variable for op. Would that work?

Why would people want to do that?

Also, no, it can't possibly work. It just makes no sense.