[Caml-list] 32 bit floats, SSE instructions

["Brandon J. Van Every" <vanevery@indiegamedesign.com>]

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Game developers do tons of stuff with 32 bit floats.  How difficult to
add these to OCaml?  I'm not saying, "do it for me," I'm asking how
difficult it would be to add to the language.  If it were feasible, then
this mod could be distributed as a patch, until such a time as it is
accepted as A Good Thing.  (Anyone already tried this?)

Does the lack of operator overloading pretty much prevent this support
in practice?  If there's only one +. operator available, and it's for 64
bit floats, whaddya gonna do?

SSE instructions I imagine would be more involved.  The data type I'm
interested in is a vector of 4 32 bit floats.  Sounds like another job
for operator overloading.


Cheers,                     www.indiegamedesign.com
Brandon Van Every           Seattle, WA

"The pioneer is the one with the arrows in his back."
                          - anonymous entrepreneur


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