System programming in D (Was: The God Language)
Walter Bright
newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Thu Jan 5 13:30:03 PST 2012
On 1/5/2012 8:49 AM, Manu wrote:
> I also wonder if the D language provides some opportunities for optimisation
> that aren't expressible in other languages,
There are some. One that is currently being exploited by the optimizer and back
end is the existence of pure functions.
> and therefore may not already have
> an expression in the GCC back end... so I can imagine some of future
> optimisations frequently discussed in this forum won't just magically appear
> with GCC/LLVM maturity. I can't imagine Iain and co extending the GCC back end
> to support some obscure D optimisations happening any time soon.
Right.
> At some level I'd like to think people would accept the word of a seasoned game
> engine dev who's genuinely interested in adopting the language for that sort of
> work, but I completely understand those who are skeptical. ;)
I'm interested in hearing more. (The virtual thing can't change.)
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