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[Dmitry Olshansky via Digitalmars-d]

On 4/27/17 4:15 AM, Stefan Koch wrote:
> On Thursday, 16 February 2017 at 21:05:51 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote:
>> [ ... ]
> Hi Guys,
>
> As you already probably know some work has been done in the past week to
> get an x86 jit rolling.
>
> It is designed to produce very simple code with _any_ optimization at all.
>
> Since optimization introduces heavy complexity down the road, even if at
> first it looks very affordable. My opinion is : "_any_ optimization too
> much."

There is also trade-off of spending too much time doing an optimization.
That being said simple peep-hole optimizations may be well worth the effort.

>
> This stance should make it possible to get some _really_ shiny
> performance numbers for dconf.
>
> Cheers,
> Stefan