Don Clugston wrote: > On 02/11/12 10:12, Jens Mueller wrote: > >Don Clugston wrote: > >>On 02/11/12 09:07, 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. > >> > >>He just knows how to convince Walter. > >>(Hint: use real-world use cases. Arguments from theoretical computer > >>science carry almost no weight with Walter). > > > >I think there are lots of issues in the bug tracker which describe real > >use cases. The point is that these are more like bugs whereas Manu's > >proposals are more like feature requests. > > > >Jens > > The SIMD stuff has no workarounds. I don't know of many other > feature requests in that category.
Then I have a serious misunderstanding. I thought D introduced array operations to allow the compiler to generate efficient vector operations (in the long run), i.e. generate SIMD code. Why is this not working out? Jens