Why DMD is so slow?
Koroskin Denis
2korden at gmail.com
Tue Jun 3 05:31:18 PDT 2008
On Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:23:07 +0400, Robert Fraser
<fraserofthenight at gmail.com> wrote:
> Unknown W. Brackets wrote:
>> As everyone has said, these are problems in DMD and DMC.
>> DMD is not a bad compiler, but it doesn't have all of the
>> optimizations that some other compilers are. For example, Microsoft's
>> cl and Intel's icc might possibly beat gcc at this too (although they
>> don't currently compile D code.)
>> Anyway, it's a matter of priorities. Improving the performance of DMD
>> compiled programs is great, but making the D language work is more
>> important. If GDC can do a good optimization job, that's great for it
>> imho.
>
> Which is why I think the LLVM project is so important. Many languages ->
> one optimizer -> many targets
The same goes for GCC as well.
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