dmd codegen improvements

cym13 via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sat Aug 29 11:41:22 PDT 2015


On Saturday, 29 August 2015 at 18:10:33 UTC, welkam wrote:
> On Saturday, 29 August 2015 at 14:44:01 UTC, Casual D user 
> wrote:
>
>> Then they come to the forums and see the head people of D 
>> working on ... DMD codegen improvements. That inspires a lot 
>> of confidence that these issues will get fixed beyond fixing 
>> them yourself - because that's what everyone adopting a new 
>> language wants to do.
>>
>> Do you know what the most complaints about D in the reddit 
>> thread were? D's incredibly old garbage collector, a complete 
>> lack of a good IDE, and a lack of good manual memory 
>> management utilities.
>>
>> I'm not blaming you, I'm just not sure if you're aware of what 
>> this looks like. If you intend for D to be a hobby project, 
>> then continue on.
>
> I just want to make sure that you understand that he was asking 
> for low hanging optimization opportunities that could be 
> implemented in few hours of work?

All the more if he doesn't, that's the trick with impressions: 
they don't have to be true to have effects. If that's what it 
looks like to someone who comes, then it is a problem.


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