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Some quick googling suggests you are wrong:

http://www.cas.mcmaster.ca/~kahl/Publications/TR/Anand-Kahl-...

http://wwwlasmea.univ-bpclermont.fr/Personnel/Jocelyn.Serot/...

http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2008/Nov-03.html

etc.

I would suggest taking a closer look at those links. They bring up another point in that you'll only find current, usable, robust support for SIMD in C++:

The first link is just a paper; the second is a 1.0 release that is seven years old, it only supports SSE, and it's all in French; the third is only for Mono, it only supports SSE and its SSE support is old and incomplete.

On the other hand, if you try to use SIMD types and intrinsics in C++ you'll find current and comprehensive support from the major compilers on all SIMD platforms.

(I'd love to use a current and comprehensive version of Haskell SIMD, but its just not ready for prime time.)

(I'd love to use a current and comprehensive version of Haskell SIMD, but its just not ready for prime time.)

Since you're obviously an expert in the area, why aren't you helping make it ready for prime time?

That's really not fair. I know of many things in and outside of my area of research that need improvement, as does any researcher. But we can only work on one thing at a time.

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