Jonathan M Davis: > I completely agree that const and shared issues are more important than SIMD, > given that they affect far more people and have to do with some of the most > frustrating bugs. So, I'm not sure that this work on SIMD is particularly > well-timed. But I very much doubt that it's a waste of time.
A lot of time ago Walter said that bugs are not all equal, some of them are much more important than others. At that time I didn't fully understand his words. Now I am compiling DMD every time some bugs get fixed. And I have seen that only a small percentage of those bug fixes has a big influence on my D2 code. When one of such bugs gets fixed, I am able to remove work-arounds, make my code more readable, introduce simpler or shorter idioms, they increase my pleasure of using D2. So I hope to see fixed every month some of such special bugs :-) Bye and thank you, bearophile
