On Monday, 2 February 2015 at 20:51:02 UTC, ketmar wrote:
i think that this is the area that can be left to
"platform-specific"
part of the specs. maybe even omited completely, as it's highly
backend/
arch dependent. if someone want to squeeze every cycle
possible, he knows
that his code will be unportable mess. ;-)
Not a portable mess per se, you can have platform support
described in the docs with performance notes.
Most OSes have been geared towards C and Posix at some point and
x86 is currently king, but hardware/coprocessors/memory
architecture can be very different. Just wait till FPGAs become
mainstream :-P. Don't mistake "unix-style-hardware" for portable
code ;^)
http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/184828-intel-unveils-new-xeon-chip-with-integrated-fpga-touts-20x-performance-boost
