On Thursday, 5 July 2012 at 22:28:21 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
I don't think D should do emulation - it should give a compiler error on vector sizes and operations that are not supported.The reason is the user may not expect the (very) slow emulation, and gets no indication of when it happens. By giving a compiler error on them, the user has the opportunity to decide what to do about it.
It's called a warning. ;)
