System programming in D (Was: The God Language)

[Walter Bright]

On 1/5/2012 1:43 PM, Manu wrote:
> On 5 January 2012 23:30, Walter Bright <newshound2 at digitalmars.com
> <mailto:newshound2 at digitalmars.com>> wrote:
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>     On 1/5/2012 8:49 AM, Manu wrote:
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>         I also wonder if the D language provides some opportunities for optimisation
>         that aren't expressible in other languages,
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>     There are some. One that is currently being exploited by the optimizer and
>     back end is the existence of pure functions.
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> Does GDC currently support these same optimisations, or is this a DMD special power?

I don't know what GDC does.