On Wednesday, 13 February 2019 at 23:26:48 UTC, Crayo List wrote:
On Wednesday, 13 February 2019 at 19:55:05 UTC, Guillaume
Piolat wrote:
On Wednesday, 13 February 2019 at 04:57:29 UTC, Crayo List
wrote:
However (for those who are unaware) there is an alternative
way that is (arguably) better;
https://ispc.github.io/index.html
You can write portable vectorized code that can be trivially
invoked from D.
ispc is another compiler in your build, and you'd write in
another language, so it's not really the same thing.
That's mostly what I said, except that I did not say it's the
same thing.
It's an alternative way to produce vectorized code in a
deterministic and portable way.
While you didn't say it was the same thing, you did say it's an
alternative that 'is arguably better'. Adding another compiler
using another language is arguably worse, so there are tradeoffs
here, which Guillaume may have felt were undercommunicated (I
know I did).
That said, it *is* a good alternative in some cases, and may well
be worth pointing out in a thread like this.
--
Simen
