Who here actually uses D?

[Walter Bright]

David Nadlinger wrote:
> Might I respectfully disagree here? The fact that DMD is emitting OMF on 
> Windows has indeed been a major annoyance for me, especially back when I 
> was new to D, and I suspect that many other people new to D might have 
> felt the same. Even more so since on Windows there are virtually no 
> alternatives to OPTLINK with its occasional bugs (yes, even though I 
> develop mostly on Linux and, more recently, OS X, I hit an OPTLINK bug 
> more than just once).

The optlink situation has gotten better, but it has a couple more issues I want 
to fix.


> On a side note: My little software rasterizer was apparently one of the 
> rare cases where LLVM and GCC generate significantly faster code 
> (typically about 10x times faster in terms of frame time, if I remember 
> correctly) than DMD, but I agree that a software renderer certainly does 
> not qualify as common case.

dmd does not use the xmm registers for floating point, so its performance tends 
to be worse on that for later CPUs.