Inherent code performance advantages of D over C?

[H. S. Teoh]

On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 02:01:09PM +1000, Manu wrote:
> On 10 December 2013 13:40, Walter Bright <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote:
> 
> > On 12/9/2013 7:04 PM, Manu wrote:
> >
> >> It would be amazing if there was some real effort put into a
> >> convenient tooling API in the DMD front-end lib.
> >>
> >
> > Generally, the best tools come from people who make them to please
> > themselves, not from people who make them to someone else's spec. I
> > suspect you'd make a very good refactoring tool.
> >
> > How about it?
> >
> 
> Not without a powerful semantic analysis library I wouldn't.  Other's
> have spent years now on semantic analysis libraries trying to
> duplicate the understanding of the code that DMD must already have
> while compiling.

We need to work on the "compiler as a library" project. A *lot* of code
analysis tools are unnecessarily duplicating effort because the compiler
is opaque; if compiler internals could be leveraged, this would open the
door for powerful code analysis/manipulation tools, and they'd be
*accurate*, and won't need endless maintenance to keep up with compiler
changes. Well, they still require maintenance, but the effort would be
far easier if much of the codebase is shared.


T

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