Performance improvements for D / DMD compiler.

[Lars Ivar Igesund]

Rioshin an'Harthen wrote:

> "Kyle Furlong" <kylefurlong at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Ah the great const debate. I have a feeling that this discussion will be
>> a major part of D 2.0.
> 
> I wish we'd gone the const by default way before releasing 1.0, no matter
> how much code would've been broken... It's so much harder now to get
> something as good into the language, as it's more likely that production
> code is being written with D, and we have to think of backwards
> compatibility. That wasn't much of an issue before.

This is true, by offputting this particular discussion for a resolution, the
breaking when it is finally fixed will be much greater, whereas the current
problematic behaviour will frustrate more than it did (after all, the D
user mass seems to grow), possibly making the next round of discussions
even harder to follow.

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