"retard" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:49:02 +0000, dsimcha wrote: > >> Given that Walter has indicated that 64-bit support is on the agenda for >> after D2 is finished and x87 is deprecated in 64-bit mode, will we also >> see SSE(2) support in DMD in the relatively near future? If so, will it >> be exposed as a compiler option even when compiling in 32-bit mode? >> >> I've realized that this is kind of important for me since Intel >> deprecated x87 on its Core 2 and Pentium 4 chips, meaning any old school >> floating point code runs painfully slow compared to, say, an AMD chip >> that still has a decent x87. > > SSE(2) ? Don't people already use SSE 4.2 and prepare for AVX?
Yes. The ones who enjoy arbitrarily shrinking their potential user base.
