[swift-evolution] Swift 3.1 discussions, go?

[Muse M]

I'm concern if simd could improve factorials code and faster timing.

import simd
func factorial(n: Int) -> Int {
    return n < 1 ? 1 : n * factorial(n: n - 1)
}
print(factorial(n: 40))

On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 12:00 AM, Charlie Monroe <charlie at charliemonroe.net>
wrote:

> That's a good point. :)
>
> On Aug 2, 2016, at 5:55 PM, Xiaodi Wu <xiaodi.wu at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm going to guess, since Musa mentioned science and engineering, that a
> good chunk of that work is floating point :)
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 10:41 AM, Charlie Monroe via swift-evolution <
> swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
>
>> Are you using the variants of operators without overflow check? I.e.
>>
>> let num = a &+ b // [1]
>>
>> [1]
>> https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Swift/Conceptual/Swift_Programming_Language/AdvancedOperators.html
>>
>>
>>
>> On Aug 2, 2016, at 3:01 AM, Muse M <james.lei65 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Have always wonder why Maths in Swift is slower than C and Go, it should
>> be address with priority if Swift is to be adopt for engineering, financial
>> and science industry.
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 4:43 AM, Charlie Monroe via swift-evolution <
>> swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
>>
>>> See
>>> https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mon-20160725/025711.html
>>>
>>> From what I understand, the discussion should stay focused on the main
>>> topics for Swift 4 that Chris highlighted in
>>> https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mon-20160725/025676.html
>>>
>>> I had several ideas in mind, but am postponing them for Swift 5, seeing
>>> the schedule...
>>>
>>>
>>> On Aug 1, 2016, at 8:48 PM, Anton Zhilin via swift-evolution <
>>> swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> It was stated that 27th of July was the last date for proposal
>>> acceptance, 29th of July was the last day for implementation, and 1th of
>>> August should be the starting day of Swift 3.1-related discussions.
>>> Am I right? Should we begin?
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