A little Py Vs C++

[Jens Mueller]

Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2012-11-01 23:51, Walter Bright wrote:
> 
> >What about all your feature requests? I think you've made more than
> >anyone, by a factor of 10 at least!
> >
> >:-)
> >
> >As for Manu's request
> >
> >http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=8108
> >
> >I've gone over with him why he needs it, and there's no other reasonable
> >way. He needs it for real code in a real application.
> 
> This is quite interesting. Manu comes in from basically nowhere and
> fairly quickly manage to convince Walter to implement at least two
> feature requests, this one and the SIMD support. I'm not saying that
> they shouldn't have been implemented. Although I think something
> like AST macros could possible solve issue 8108 and a whole bunch of
> other features, a few already present in the language.

I had the same thought when reading this. Very disappointing. An issue
with zero votes is fixed instead of more important ones. Why do I vote
anyway?
Regarding SIMD I have the feeling that because it is built into the
compiler static vectors have actually failed what they promised. I
thought D proposed a portable way of vector operations such that you
write
float[4] = a[] + b[]
and the compiler generates SIMD code for you.

Jens