dmd codegen improvements

[jmh530 via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 08:59:57 UTC, ixid wrote:
>
> One of D's potential massive wins is speed and I think that has 
> the most easily conveyed impacted on the audience. If we had 
> the best benchmark site for a very large range of languages it 
> would not only draw people here but drive the improvement of D 
> on all compilers (and perhaps allow us to make LDC/GCD for run 
> speed, DMD for compile speed more explicit) as every time there 
> is a benchmark contest we seem to find some small thing that 
> needs a fix and then D blows others away. This would also 
> convey more idiomatic D for performance as D seems to suffer 
> from people writing it as whatever language they come from. 
> People love competitions, the current benchmark site that seems 
> to weirdly dislike D is one of people's go to references. I do 
> not have the ability to do this but it would seem like an 
> excellent project for someone outside the major development 
> group, a Summer of Code-esque thing.

You mean this site?
http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/