On 8/01/12 12:14 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
On 1/7/2012 1:28 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
But most always it's NOT, and definitely not in the
context of a complex data structure like a hash table. I also think
that adding
a hecatomb of built-in types and functions has smells, though to a
good extent I
concede to the necessity of it.
I want to reiterate that I don't think there is a way with the current
compiler technology to make a library SIMD type that will perform as
well as a builtin one, and those who use SIMD tend to be extremely
demanding of performance.
Considering the that entire purpose of SIMD is performance, I think the
demand is reasonable :-)
