Will the D GC be awesome?

[Alex Rønne Petersen]

On 04-10-2012 14:26, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2012-10-04 12:59, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote:
>
>> I agree that it should be, FWIW. The problem is that some people really
>> expect the ABI to be altered, which is unrealistic.
>
> Is there an advantage of altering the ABI?
>

Presumably speed; returning small structs in registers will be faster 
than doing so on the stack.

But I don't agree that the vast complexity of altering well-established 
ABIs for multiple architectures is worth that speed gain.

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