"Gruenke, Matt" <mgruenke@Tycoint.com> writes:
As a potential user, I support Joel & Mathieu continuing on their current track. That said, I hope work on explicit vector programming and auto-vectorization will continue. I would be interested and supportive of anyone exploring these areas, but I feel it's unnecessary and not worthwhile to hold up Boost.SIMD in hopes of something better.
I'm not saying we should hold up boost.simd. I'm saying that the author's claims that the compiler can't do much of this is flat out wrong. I fear they are going to lead a lot of people down the wrong path. There is a place for boost.simd. Absolutely there is. But the way it's positioned by the linked-to presentation is misleading and very wrong. Vectorizing compilers exist today. They've existing since the 1970's. -Dave