Le 02/11/2012 18:46, Andrei Alexandrescu a écrit :

On 11/2/12 1:22 PM, Walter Bright wrote:

On 11/2/2012 2:01 AM, Jens Mueller wrote:
> I had the same thought when reading this. Very disappointing. An issue
> with zero votes is fixed instead of more important ones.

It's a very fair question.

Manu works for Remedy Games, a developer of hit PC games, such as Max
Payne and Alan Wake. He champions a team that is investigating
committing to D for a major new game. This would be a huge design win
for D, and an enormous boost for D. I view the most effective use of my
time at the moment is to ensure that they can bet on D and win. Remedy's
use of D for a high profile product will prove that D is ready and able
for the big time, and that others can develop using D with confidence.

Nearly all of what he needs the D community needs anyway, such as the
big push for Win64 support and the SIMD support (more on that in another
post).

I should add that I'm also totally behind this. When Walter jumped into
implementing SIMD support on a hunch, I completely disagreed, but that
was a great decision.

Andrei

I still don't understand the benefice over align(16) float[4] .

It's a mechanism to insist on register placement and usage semantics. On the vast majority of architectures, floats and simd are absolutely incompatible. It's awfully dangerous to describe them both with a single type when they are mutually exclusive...