Required DMD changes for Mir and few thoughts about D future

[Ilya Yaroshenko via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 8 October 2016 at 17:28:14 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
> On Monday, 26 September 2016 at 20:11:19 UTC, Ilya Yaroshenko 
> wrote:
>> Yes, the same true for Mir too. A precompiled library based on 
>> top of Mir GLAS can be used with DMD.
>
> Is this feasible, i.e. is there a finite amount of kernels that 
> we can precompile and use?
> I thought the kernels were fully template generated, but your 
> idea suggests sth. different.

Mir is generic library and it will have few dub configurations. 
For example a configuration which provides precompiled extern(C) 
BLAS API for common types. This is useful for D as for other 
languages like C or Julia. In addition, it allows to have few 
precompiled versions, optimized for different CPUs: x87, SSE2, 
AVX intel, AVX amd, AVX2 intel, AVX2 amd, and etc. The proper 
configuration may be chosen RT or CT.