"Walter" <walter@digitalmars.com> wrote in message news:b8aeqr$2s7b$1@digitaldaemon.com...
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> "Sean L. Palmer" <palmer.sean@verizon.net> wrote in message news:b6bhbj$1tf2$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> > You obviously know about rol and ror.  C has non-ansi-standard __lrotl
and
> > __lrotr (Microsoft libraries) but hopefully D will have standard
> intrinsics
> > for this basic op.  The only drag is that for it to be useful you need
to
> > know the size of the int type exactly.
>
> I haven't because I never know what to do with rcl and rcr <g>.

D has no concept of carry, so obviously those two aren't going to fit well. I don't think the carry bit is appropriate domain for a high-level language to deal with.  Not terribly portable.

> > fsincos is apparently a x87-only feature (haven't seen it on any other processor yet) but it seems to be the nature of math that if you need
> either
> > sin or cos, you will likely need the other as well, for the same angle.
> It
> > makes sense for a coprocessor to compute them both at once much as it
> makes
> > sense to do integer div and mod at the same time.  There is considerable work that doesn't need to be done twice.
>
> I think a better approach is for the compiler to recognize that both sin()
> and cos() are being done on the same argument, and internally convert it
to
> fsincos.

That'd be a fine solution.

> > Don't ya just love the basics?
>
> Doing the basics well pays endless dividends.

Agreed.  We sure appreciate it.

> Right now, getting the basic system working on linux is my priority. I'm currently studying the pthreads manual.

Ahhh... pthreads.  I wrapped that once and never had occasion to use it.

Linux seems to be a big issue.  It's definitely worth doing, because it will bring in some talented Unix people who may be willing to contribute time and/or code to the D effort.

Sean

I recently found this out firsthand.  Sweet!

Sean

"Walter" <walter@digitalmars.com> wrote in message news:b8aeqr$2s7b$2@digitaldaemon.com...
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> "Sean L. Palmer" <palmer.sean@verizon.net> wrote in message news:b6gfj1$2h9u$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> > DMD inline asm wouldn't by any chance support the P4 opcodes would it?
I
> > can do it the hard way if I have to.
>
> The DMD inline assembler supports *all* the x86 opcodes, including the AMD 3d!now ones.

"Sean L. Palmer" <palmer.sean@verizon.net> wrote in message news:b8as8s$3nh$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> Linux seems to be a big issue.  It's definitely worth doing, because it
will
> bring in some talented Unix people who may be willing to contribute time and/or code to the D effort.

I suspect it may double or triple the D user base, as linux seems to have attracted the people who write code for fun and the early adopters.