Performance improvements for D / DMD compiler.

[Lars Ivar Igesund]

Lars Ivar Igesund wrote:

> 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.
> 

I suppose I should read the _whole_ thread prior to posting such opinions,
but it was so darned long! Going through all of it, it seems like we may
gain a proper resolution soonish, which will be better than even later :)

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