*sigh* .. my biggest pet peeve with the D community.

ARM and PPC are not 'odd', ARM is the most common consumer architecture in the world. PPC powers all current gaming consoles and other entertainment devices.

x86, is only used in PC's, which are losing market share to phones, tablets, and games devices at a fast and accelerating rate. Even ARM netbooks/laptops are starting to appear.

I'd really like to see a mental shift within the D community where ARM was recognised as a 1st class architecture, and factored into EVERY technical decision, potentially with higher priority than x86 even. The performance and efficiency requirements of arm and ppc devices is virtually always much higher than that demanded of x86, and the architectures are slower to begin with, so they have more to lose.

One could argue features should be designed to be as efficient as possible for ARM, and architectural work-arounds should be applied to the x86 implementation. x86 users won't notice, arm users will.

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