DConf 2013 Day 3 Talk 4: LDC by David Nadlinger

[nazriel]

On Monday, 17 June 2013 at 13:47:20 UTC, bearophile wrote:
> Andrei Alexandrescu:
>
>> http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1gie4b/dconf_2013_ldc_the_llvmbased_d_compiler_by_david/
>
> Slide 14:
>
> PFFT (SSE) seems slow on LDC2: if you can extract a small test
> case LLVM devs will appreciate a lot a bug report (they fixed
> many lacks of optimizations submitted by me). If you have a link
> to the PFFT code them maybe I can do that myself.
>
I don't know what PFFT stands for (can't google it either, funny 
results shows up) but if it related to vectorization then maybe 
LDC has been slower because it was built against LLVM 3.3 while 
LLVM 3.4 brings more vector optimizations.

Maybe all what has to be done, is rerunning benchmarks against 
LDC + LLVM 3.4 ?
>
> Slide 25:
>> Implicit invariants often hard to track down
>
> Then maybe it's a good idea to add such invariants to the dmd
> front-end code, even before its port to D.
>
> Bye,
> bearophile