dmd codegen improvements

[Dmitry Olshansky via Digitalmars-d]

On 19-Aug-2015 12:46, "Ola Fosheim =?UTF-8?B?R3LDuHN0YWQi?= 
<ola.fosheim.grostad+dlang at gmail.com>" wrote:
> On Wednesday, 19 August 2015 at 09:29:31 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
>> I do not. I underestime the benefits of tons of subtle passes that
>> play into 0.1-0.2% in some cases. There are lots and lots of this in
>> GCC/LLVM. If having the best code generated out there is not the goal
>> we can safely omit most of these focusing on the most critical bits.
>
> Well, you can start on this now, but by the time it is ready and
> hardened, LLVM might have received improved AVX2 and AVX-512 code gen
> from Intel. Which basically will leave DMD in the dust.
>

On numerics, video-codecs and the like. Not like compilers solely depend 
on AVX.

-- 
Dmitry Olshansky