Can we drop static struct initializers?

[Craig Black]

"bearophile" <bearophileHUGS at lycos.com> wrote in message 
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> Walter Bright:
>> The generated code should be identical. Please file a bugzilla!
>
> The last times I have shown a benchmark here, people have answered me that 
> the dmd backend is primitive/old, so they have implicitly told me to not 
> bother. So as you have noticed I have stopped showing benchmarks here for 
> a long time, and I have focused myself in helping finding performance 
> problems in LDC (and in LLVM itself). Recently LDC devs have slowed down 
> their development, and they have not followed my suggestions, so I'll 
> probably work mostly on LLVM.
>
> Bye,
> bearophile

It may be frustrating trying to get others to be as performance-minded as 
you are, but I for one appreciated very much any contributions that will 
make D faster.  So thanks for trying, even if your advice is ignored.

-Craig