Could D benefit from JIT compiling?

[Martin Nowak]

On Fri, 02 Dec 2011 16:46:19 +0100, Xinok <xinok at live.com> wrote:

> Reading through the 'Java > Scala' thread, I've realized there are some  
> benefits to dynamic code generation vs statically compiled code. Things  
> like unrolling loops, devirtualizing functions, etc.
>
> So it made me wonder, could D benefit from such technology, not from a  
> feature standpoint, but strictly optimization? I'm not familiar with the  
> topic, but I imagine there could be a few situations that would benefit  
> in terms of performance, as long as it doesn't affect interoperability.

  - CTFE
  - things typically done using whole program optimization
  - flexible runtime plugins
  - some loop unrolling but the performance win stagnates with the
    latest generation X86 CPUs due to the micro op decoding cache