Re:Google removes SIMD.js support from Chromium
by coldtea on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @03:54PM
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>The problem is not communication. To quote Paul Graham in a keynote from some years back: People have been waiting for "sufficiently smart compilers" to cut programmers out of the loop for 30 years. It is a neat idea in theory. In practice it is just very hard.
I don't see how it's "very hard" in the general case. Compilers have been increasingly cutting programmers out of the loop for 30 years now.
It's the reason we program apps and even games in C++ and not in hand-rolled assembly as we did in the 80s, and why we can use crazily high level languages like JS and still get within an order of magnitude of C with a modern JIT.
I don't see how it's "very hard" in the general case. Compilers have been increasingly cutting programmers out of the loop for 30 years now.
It's the reason we program apps and even games in C++ and not in hand-rolled assembly as we did in the 80s, and why we can use crazily high level languages like JS and still get within an order of magnitude of C with a modern JIT.