[Fwd: Re: [go-nuts] Re: Generics false dichotomy]

[Paulo Pinto]

Am 16.02.2014 21:29, schrieb Walter Bright:
> On 2/16/2014 12:09 PM, Russel Winder wrote:
>> Someone with serious knowledge should wade into this campaign of FUD.
>> The whole thread is wrong-headed.
>
> I enjoyed this comment:
>
> "The D guys have thrown a lot of time behind making their compiler fast"
>
> It's not exactly true. What has happened is I spent a LOT of time trying
> to make my C/C++ compiler fast. That experience has enabled me to design
> D so it is fundamentally fast to compile, and enabled me to pick an
> internal design for the compiler that I know will be fast.
>
> The actual time I've spent profiling and tuning DMD for speed has been
> minimal, though I've still gotten caught by a few mistakes.
>
> And there's this regression:
>
> https://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=12137

Walter, they tend to speak about Go compilation times as if Modula-2, 
Turbo Pascal, and who knows what else, didn't already had that in the 
mid-80's.

Go's fast compilation times are easy to sell to developers that never 
used native code compilers besides C and C++ ones.

So many in the Go community think it was kind of an achievement of 
language toolchain.

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Paulo