auto ref is on the docket

weaselcat via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue Jun 23 13:10:27 PDT 2015


On Tuesday, 23 June 2015 at 17:05:41 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
> On Tuesday, 23 June 2015 at 16:27:34 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
> wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 23 June 2015 at 13:52:19 UTC, Daniel N wrote:
>>> [...]
>>
>> And how does it introduce a hidden performance issue. You'd 
>> end up with some template bloat, but that's it, and that's 
>> just going to increase the memory footprint of your program 
>> slightly, which isn't generally going to be a performance 
>> issue. It's just going to make your program slightly larger.
>>
>> - Jonathan M Davis
>
> instruction cache misses can really hurt

any time spent optimizing for this would be better spent making 
GDC/LDC 'good enough' to replace dmd.


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