Use SIMD to accelerate comment lexing

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On Tuesday, 2 June 2015 at 18:20:51 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Tuesday, 2 June 2015 at 17:54:38 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
>> I was being deliberately quizzical because there are different 
>> takes on
>> what you would call simd in the language, what set of types 
>> are available
>> to you, what intrinsics are exposed (and how they are 
>> exposed), etc.
>
> Well, Manu would know that a lot better than I would. I hadn't 
> even heard of SIMD before he got Walter to put it into the 
> language, and I have yet to use it, though I do think that I 
> need to look into it at some point to see where I could take 
> advantage of it.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

D's simd library is difficult to use in comparison with gcc or 
clang's extensions to C/C++.
bye,