• jbkinsey (6/6) Aug 19 2001 With the advent of the vector units in modern processors (ie MMX, SSE, S...
• nicO (3/11) Aug 26 2001 Rewriting STL with such instructions could much more usefull.

"jbkinsey" <jbkinsey hotmail.com> writes:

With the advent of the vector units in modern processors (ie MMX, SSE, SSE2,
Altivec, Emotion Engine) it's a shame that modern languages don't provide
built in support for vector types. After breifly looking over the D
language, I was wondering if it would be too late to add such a type to the
language spec?

Jeffrey

nicO <nicolas.boulay ifrance.com> writes:

jbkinsey a écrit :
 
 With the advent of the vector units in modern processors (ie MMX, SSE, SSE2,
 Altivec, Emotion Engine) it's a shame that modern languages don't provide
 built in support for vector types. After breifly looking over the D
 language, I was wondering if it would be too late to add such a type to the
 language spec?
 
 Jeffrey

Rewriting STL with such instructions could much more usefull.

nicO