Are there any default dmd optimizations

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 2/26/13 3:51 PM, foobar wrote:
> On Tuesday, 26 February 2013 at 10:59:41 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
>> I agree with all but small comment on unit tests : current approach
>> makes it really easy to start adding tests for projects that do not
>> have them and this is huge. So having "unittest" blocks themselves is
>> really a success feature. Tightly coupling handling of this blocks to
>> compiler is an issue though.
>
> Again, this is a completely superfluous feature. D already has
> annotations (took only several years to convince Walter to add them)
> which are more flexible and much better suited for this.
>
> @unittest // <- this is a unit-test function
> void mySuperDuperTestFunction(...);
>
> There is no benefit in having all those special case features in the
> language which have all sorts of integration issues yet deny the
> usefulness of a more general solution generally accepted in the
> programming world, successfully used in many languages and thus also
> familiar to programmers coming from those languages.

Agreed, but it does happen often that a language feature is later 
superseded by a generalization thereof.

Andrei