Jonas Maebe pisze:
Of course tSSEVector should be declared in System unit.
Then any one can use SSE intentionally
Why can't you now? It's not like multiplication has any other meaning
for arrays. And declaring "magic compiler types" in the system unit is
something that should be avoided as much as possible (it makes both
the compiler and rtl harder to adapt and understand).
Of course, but SIMD is thing, which has more and more impact to
performance. And compiler should respect it (and do this, as Florian
said). But till now nobody know, where compiler use SSE instruction. In
my mind, to achieve this is declare some primitives represents SSE
types. On one side there are "magic compiler types" but on second there
exists in real world (most of used CPU has them). And it will be
harmless, because its not change in language (we can use record, array)
and is easy implement needed primitives in pure pascal. Its very similar
to IEEE-754: on platform where FPU not exists all function are
implemented by hand.
--
Darek
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