On Wednesday, 12 December 2012 at 21:27:35 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
On 12/12/2012 3:12 AM, foobar wrote:
Regarding performance and overflow checking, the example you
give is x86
specific. What about other platforms? For example ARM is very
popular nowadays
in the mobile world and there are many more smart-phones out
there than there
are PCs. Is the same issue exists and if not (I suspect not,
but really have no
idea) should D be geared towards current platforms or future
ones?
I don't know the ARM instruction set.
I think it would be very hard, at this stage, to argue that you
should be putting your effort into ARM rather than x86. It's a
nice to have that doesn't seem very relevant to gaining traction
for D, areas like bioinformatics seem more relevant.
