Usability of D on windows?

John Burton via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue Aug 23 14:36:12 PDT 2016


On Tuesday, 23 August 2016 at 21:25:29 UTC, Cauterite wrote:
> On Tuesday, 23 August 2016 at 21:15:40 UTC, John Burton wrote:
>>
>
> Well, you're fighting a losing battle by trying to use GDC/LDC 
> on Windows, since Windows is priority #2 for D, and GDC/LDC are 
> still struggling with priority #1 (Linux).
>
> You make the Digital Mars backend sound unusable, but I think 
> you should give it another chance. I personally find most bugs 
> originating from the backend are triggered by corner-cases 
> which can be easily avoided until the bug is fixed.

Thanks, I'm more worried about the speed of the produced code for 
DMD. I need to do a lot of vector math and the code produced by 
DMD just seems way slower. It might be fast enough though so I 
could try it.


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