A little Py Vs C++

[Don Clugston]

On 02/11/12 10:12, Jens Mueller wrote:
> Don Clugston wrote:
>> On 02/11/12 09:07, 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.
>>
>> He just knows how to convince Walter.
>> (Hint: use real-world use cases. Arguments from theoretical computer
>> science carry almost no weight with Walter).
>
> I think there are lots of issues in the bug tracker which describe real
> use cases. The point is that these are more like bugs whereas Manu's
> proposals are more like feature requests.
>
> Jens

The SIMD stuff has no workarounds. I don't know of many other feature 
requests in that category.