dmd codegen improvements

[Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 1 September 2015 at 17:14:44 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
> It's been mentioned before that there really isn't much point 
> in using C when you can use D. Even if you completely avoid the 
> GC and the standard library, you're _still_ ahead of where 
> you'd be with C, and you can call C functions trivially. So, 
> you can definitely use D as a better C; you just lose out on a 
> lot of cool stuff that D has to offer beyond that. But D has a 
> lot to offer over C even without using any of that stuff.
>
> One of the first projects I used D for was back in college a 
> number of years ago where I got sick of some of the issues I 
> was having with C++ and went with D because it gave me stuff 
> like array bounds checking. I was using very few of D's 
> features (heck, D2 was quite young at that point, and I don't 
> think that ranges had been introduced to Phobos yet at that 
> point, so the standard library was seriously lacking anyway), 
> but it was still easier to use D.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis


worthy of a quick blogpost sometime?  Laeeth.