On 02/11/12 10:01, Jens Mueller wrote:
Jacob Carlborg wrote:
On 2012-11-01 23:51, Walter Bright wrote:
What about all your feature requests? I think you've made more than
anyone, by a factor of 10 at least!
:-)
As for Manu's request
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=8108
I've gone over with him why he needs it, and there's no other reasonable
way. He needs it for real code in a real application.
This is quite interesting. Manu comes in from basically nowhere and
fairly quickly manage to convince Walter to implement at least two
feature requests, this one and the SIMD support. I'm not saying that
they shouldn't have been implemented. Although I think something
like AST macros could possible solve issue 8108 and a whole bunch of
other features, a few already present in the language.
I had the same thought when reading this. Very disappointing. An issue
with zero votes is fixed instead of more important ones. Why do I vote
anyway?
Regarding SIMD I have the feeling that because it is built into the
compiler static vectors have actually failed what they promised. I
thought D proposed a portable way of vector operations such that you
write
float[4] = a[] + b[]
and the compiler generates SIMD code for you.
Not for short vectors. They are more like the builtin operations in
Fortran, ie designed for large vectors. More for scientific kinds of
applications than games. (The two applications look superficially
similar, but in practice they have little in common).
