On 15 January 2012 20:10, Iain Buclaw <ibuc...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > On 15 January 2012 16:59, Iain Buclaw <ibuc...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > > On 15 January 2012 06:56, Walter Bright <newshou...@digitalmars.com> > wrote: > >> I get a 2 to 2.5 speedup with the vector instructions on 64 bit Linux. > >> Anyhow, it's good enough now to play around with. Consider it alpha > quality. > >> Expect bugs - but make bug reports, as there's a serious lack of source > code > >> to test it with. > > > > I get 20+ speedup without optimisations with GDC on that small test. :) > > > > Correction, 1.5x speed up without, 20x speed up with -O1, 30x speed up > with -O2 and above. My oh my...
Oh my indeed. Haha, well I'm sure that's a fairly artificial result, but yes, this is why I've been harping on for months that it's a bare necessity to provide language support :P
