On 2/1/15 9:26 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> I agree indecision is bad. -- Andrei

Whereas I'm still on the fence...

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

Maybe someone should remove this from the Changelog?
http://dlang.org/changelog.html#partial-type