On 5/27/2019 6:46 PM, 9il wrote:
Does DMD still use x87 for float/double on other targets?
Yes - Win32 and FreeBSD32.
We'll see how this goes, and if it's good we can do the rest.
On Tuesday, 28 May 2019 at 01:23:18 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
32 Bit Linux now uses XMM registers for float and double rather
than the x87.
This should substantially speed up routine float and double
processing.
SIMD vector operations, however, are still not support on 32
bit Linux code
32 Bit Linux now uses XMM registers for float and double rather than the x87.
This should substantially speed up routine float and double processing.
SIMD vector operations, however, are still not support on 32 bit Linux code
because of issues with 16 byte stack alignment.
This means that
