Use SIMD to accelerate comment lexing

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 6/2/15 5:27 AM, Manu via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On 2 June 2015 at 05:39, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d
> <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
>> https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14641
>>
>> Manu, our resident god of vector instructions, do you want to take this on?
>
> How do you measure this? Is there a convenient setup that will produce
> a realistic test environment?

Probably building Phobos is a good baseline. If simple experiments show 
measurable speedup with Phobos, it's likely to be worth the effort. -- 
Andrei