[Mono-dev] Incoming changes to Mono.Simd

Jonathan Pryor jonpryor at vt.edu
Wed Dec 3 16:16:46 EST 2008


On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 17:24 +0000, Alan McGovern wrote:
> Out of interest, why do we use static methods currently rather than
> instance methods? Would using instance methods instead of extension
> methods complicate things jit-wise, as API-wise it'd be essentially
> the same.

Then there's documentation-wise, in which the use of extension methods
permits at-a-glance comparison on which operations are supported on the
various Vector* types (instead of needing to compare Vector* type member
documentation between types for comparisons).

 - Jon




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