dmd 2.029 release

[Tomas Lindquist Olsen]

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 2:37 PM, Don <nospam at nospam.com> wrote:
> bearophile wrote:
>>
>> Don:
>>>
>>> I really don't understand the backend. It's quite cryptic. Key acronyms
>>> are AE, CP and VBE. Then there's Bin, Bgen, Bkill, etc.
>>> AE *might* be Available Expression (but what does that mean?)
>>> CP might be Copy Propagation info
>>> I've found that VBE = "Very Busy Expression"! (what does that mean?)
>>
>> I suggest to add comments to the DMD source code every time a small
>> mystery is revealed, to rename the files once a much better name is found,
>> to improve and refactor the code every time it a good thing to do it. Every
>> time you put your hand in the code you can improve the code locally and
>> leave it better then before (this is the Scout principle in programming).
>> Then such patches/changes can be slowly folded back into DMD and with time
>> the sources will improve and will become more readable. Once they can be
>> understood better, further changes become faster and simpler.
>
> I'd love to do that, but unfortunately it's not easy to get _any_ changes
> into DMD. Only Walter has write-access to it, and AFAIK he checks every line
> and enters it manually. Like Linus was famous for doing with the Linux
> kernel.
>

Glad to hear I'm not the only one with that impression...