Simen Kjaeraas wrote: > On 2012-39-03 12:11, Jens Mueller <jens.k.muel...@gmx.de> wrote: > > > >> > >>I have a fork; some people are using it already. It still needs a lot of > >>work though; some compilers missing parts, platforms not supported. > >>That said, it's not an effort to address D's natural vector > >>syntax, the key > >>goal is to provide a hardware SIMD API that is as orthogonal as possible > >>and portable (with confidence it will run reasonably well). > >>I wonder if druntime could be enhanced to use the SIMD stuff > >>though in the > >>functions that perform the natural vector operations, might > >>offer some nice > >>little boosts. > > > >Cool. > >It'll be nice though if D's vector operations could be expressed on top > >of it. I mean a[] + b[] is so much easier to read. > > Perhaps I'm the confused one here, but as I understand it, that's the > whole point of the latter part of the paragraph - array operations are > implemented in druntime, and that implementation might benefit from using > SIMD instructions.
Sorry. I'm the one being confused. You're right Simen. Jens