On 2/28/2013 5:02 AM, Peter Alexander wrote:
On Thursday, 28 February 2013 at 10:57:29 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
My worry here is that we are setting a precedent for adding new range concepts.
If the only justification needed is that is saves a single operation in some
niche area of computing then we are opening the door to a LOT of different range
concepts.
There are many cases where speed is a very big deal.
Yes, are we going to add new range categories every time there's a performance
benefit to doing so?
has16ByteAlignedElements
hasUniqueElements
hasContiguousMemory
isMonotonic
isUnimodal
...
?
Depends on whether one can make a good case for them.
