std.math performance (SSE vs. real)

[francesco cattoglio via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 29 June 2014 at 00:22:02 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 6/28/2014 4:27 AM, francesco cattoglio wrote:
>> We are talking about paying a price when you don't need it.
>
> More than that - the suggestion has come up here (and comes up 
> repeatedly) to completely remove support for 80 bits. Heck, 
> Microsoft has done so with VC++ and even once attempted to 
> completely remove it from 64 bit Windows (I talked them out of 
> it, you can thank me!).

Then I must have missed the post. Removing 80 bit support would 
sound like madness to my ears.
And about that Microsoft thing, thanks a lot :o)