Hello dsimcha,
== Quote from Walter Bright ([email protected])'s article
You know, the unimplemented 128 bit integer types. Does anyone have a
use for these?
Well, we've got bigints in both Phobos and Tango now. Given the
clumsiness or downright impossibility of manipulating 128-bit ints in
hardware on x86-32, would they even be much faster than bigints? I
mean, you couldn't even fit 2 128-bit ints plus a stack pointer in the
general-purpose registers of an x86.
That's why I was asking about SSE... I believe that they have 128-bit registers
that can be viewed as integers and unsigned integers. But I'm not very familiar
with how this works.
-JJR
