Who here actually uses D?

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Sun Jan 2 20:30:53 PST 2011


Eric Poggel wrote:
> On 1/1/2011 11:56 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
>>
>> dmd does not use the xmm registers for floating point, so its
>> performance tends to be worse on that for later CPUs.
> 
> Granted, this should be lower priority than bug fixes, but out of 
> curiosity, is this something that's hard to fix?  I see it come up 
> frequently in the benchmark-related posts here.

It requires a bunch of new code to be written.


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