long compile time question

[Era Scarecrow]

On Wednesday, 24 October 2012 at 15:39:19 UTC, thedeemon wrote:
> The code DMD generates for initializing the struct does not use 
> loops, so it's
> xor     ecx, ecx
> mov     [eax], ecx
> mov     [eax+4], ecx
> mov     [eax+8], ecx
> ...
>
> So your code creates a lot of work for the compiler.

  That seems silly. I would think after the struct's init/contents 
were known it would make a single block that holds the basic init 
for it and bulk copy every time it needed it (if it's beyond a 
certain size, say 32 bytes).

  Also memset only works if the data can be defaulted to 0. Hmmm...