On Wednesday, 18 June 2014 at 03:28:48 UTC, Sean Cavanaugh wrote:
On 6/15/2014 4:34 PM, Joakim wrote:
He clarifies in the comments:
"D is not 'high-performance' the same way as C and C++ are
not. Systems
is not the same as high-performance. Fortran always has been
more
'high-performance' than C/C++ as it doesn't have pointer
aliasing (think
that C++ introduced restrict, which is the bread and butter of
a HPC
language only in C++11, same for threading, still no vector
types...)
for example. ISPC is a HPC language or Julia, Fortran, even
Numpy if you
want, not D or C or C++"
http://c0de517e.blogspot.in/2014/06/where-is-my-c-replacement.html?showComment=1402865174608#c415780017887651116
I had a nice sad 'ha ha' moment when I realized that msvc can't
cope with restrict on the pointers feeding into the simd
intrinsics; you have to cast it away. So much for that perf :)
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2013/07/12/introducing-vector-calling-convention.aspx
