On 1/13/2012 3:51 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

On 1/13/12 4:57 PM, Walter Bright wrote:

On 1/13/2012 2:31 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

People will want to pass a variable for op. Would that work?

It'll currently fail miserably - it has to be a constant. Otherwise, we
have runtime code generation. While not impossible, it is a large
increase in scope.

Then probably the operation should be simd!opcode(arguments). If a function is
intrinsic it shouldn't have special syntactic rights.

You're right, I'm just not too thrilled about generating hundreds of template instantiations.