Intel MPX

[Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 15 December 2014 at 16:30:14 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> Any thoughts on how the upcoming hardware supported bounds 
> checking from Intel will affect D?
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_MPX
>
> Chapter 9 in:
>
> https://software.intel.com/sites/default/files/managed/0d/53/319433-022.pdf

Interesting, given that bounds checking support is an old feature

http://x86.renejeschke.de/html/file_module_x86_id_18.html

If I remember my Assembly days in the 90's BOUND was slower than 
doing the check explicitly.

I guess now it is way faster and the MMU is doing it instead.

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Paulo