On Monday, 15 December 2014 at 16:30:14 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
Any thoughts on how the upcoming hardware supported bounds
checking from Intel will affect D?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_MPX
Chapter 9 in:
https://software.intel.com/sites/default/files/managed/0d/53/319433-022.pdf
Interesting, given that bounds checking support is an old feature
http://x86.renejeschke.de/html/file_module_x86_id_18.html
If I remember my Assembly days in the 90's BOUND was slower than
doing the check explicitly.
I guess now it is way faster and the MMU is doing it instead.
--
Paulo
