Trip notes from Israel

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 5/22/17 4:51 PM, Johan Engelen wrote:
> On Monday, 22 May 2017 at 15:05:24 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> http://dlang.org/blog/2017/05/22/introspection-introspection-everywhere/ 
>> -- Andrei
> 
> A fun read!
> 
> "(Late at night, I double checked. Mozilla’s CheckedInt is just as bad 
> as I remembered. They do a division to test for multiplication overflow. 
> Come on, put a line of assembler in there! Portability is worth a price, 
> just not any price.)"
> 
> Shocked: do you use assembly in Checked and cripple the optimizer?!?!
> Luckily, no. But LDC and GDC do create the `seto` instruction I think 
> you were hinting at:
> https://godbolt.org/g/0jUhgs
> 
> (LDC doesn't do as good as it could, 
> https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/issues/2131)

Thanks! Yes, seto is what I thought of - one way or another, it gets 
down to using a bit of machine-specific code to get there. I'll note 
that dmd does not generate seto (why?): https://goo.gl/nRjNMy. -- Andrei