Would you trade 0.1% in performance for a better debugging experience?

Dicebot via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Dec 4 07:35:38 PST 2014


On Thursday, 4 December 2014 at 14:39:07 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev 
wrote:
> On Thursday, 4 December 2014 at 14:28:47 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
>> I think it is a better default, at least in absence of 
>> multiple release flavors.
>
> I don't think it's going to happen. The arguments would need to 
> overrule Walter Bright and Martin Nowak (effectively Druntime's 
> current maintainer).
>
> Plus, there's Rainer's benchmark results, which show a 
> different figure.
>
> I think I'm going to keep improving Digger instead, to the 
> point that the default build flags become of little importance.

I am not going to fight over this (not _that_ important) but it 
is a sad mistake. Providing plesant out of the box experience is 
more important that perfect out of the box performance.


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