• nobody_ (6/6) Oct 11 2006 I might sound really ignorant, so please tell me if I do.
• Jarrett Billingsley (4/10) Oct 11 2006 Do you mean something like std.intrinsic:
• nobody_ (2/4) Oct 11 2006 Yup somthing like that :)
• Jarrett Billingsley (18/23) Oct 11 2006 Well, what instructions are you looking to use? This theoretical module...
• nobody_ (4/20) Oct 11 2006 Thx

"nobody_" <spam spam.spam> writes:

I might sound really ignorant, so please tell me if I do.

Instruction sets are only accessible throught assembler, right?
Would it be possible to write an module which makes some of the more general 
instructions available through functions?
Or is D already fully uptimized in such a way that this would not yield any 
performance increase?

"Jarrett Billingsley" <kb3ctd2 yahoo.com> writes:

"nobody_" <spam spam.spam> wrote in message 
news:egioi6$1482$1 digitaldaemon.com...
I might sound really ignorant, so please tell me if I do.

 Instruction sets are only accessible throught assembler, right?
 Would it be possible to write an module which makes some of the more 
 general instructions available through functions?
 Or is D already fully uptimized in such a way that this would not yield 
 any performance increase?

Do you mean something like std.intrinsic: 
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/phobos/std_intrinsic.html ?

"nobody_" <spam spam.spam> writes:

 Do you mean something like std.intrinsic: 
 http://www.digitalmars.com/d/phobos/std_intrinsic.html ?

Yup somthing like that :)
But those aren't all instructions.. I think  ;) 

"Jarrett Billingsley" <kb3ctd2 yahoo.com> writes:

"nobody_" <spam spam.spam> wrote in message 
news:egj832$1ka6$1 digitaldaemon.com...
 Do you mean something like std.intrinsic: 
 http://www.digitalmars.com/d/phobos/std_intrinsic.html ?

 Yup somthing like that :)
 But those aren't all instructions.. I think  ;)

Well, what instructions are you looking to use?  This theoretical module 
would also be quite platform-dependent, if you're looking to use things like 
SSE3 or something..

If you'd like, you could write your own functions to wrap the assembly 
instructions you'd like to use, like:

// useless function
void Move(int* dest, int* src)
{
    asm
    {
        mov EBX, src;
        mov EAX, [EBX];
        mov EBX, dest;
        mov [EBX], EAX;
    }
}

"nobody_" <spam spam.spam> writes:

Thx
I've been looking through all the instruction sets and, yes, it would be 
really platform-dependent.
And the most interesting are still to come: SSE4 :)



 Well, what instructions are you looking to use?  This theoretical module 
 would also be quite platform-dependent, if you're looking to use things 
 like SSE3 or something..

 If you'd like, you could write your own functions to wrap the assembly 
 instructions you'd like to use, like:

 // useless function
 void Move(int* dest, int* src)
 {
    asm
    {
        mov EBX, src;
        mov EAX, [EBX];
        mov EBX, dest;
        mov [EBX], EAX;
    }
 }