Disappointing performance from DMD/Phobos

[Iain Buclaw]

On 26 June 2018 at 20:26, Eugene Wissner via Digitalmars-d
<digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday, 26 June 2018 at 18:07:56 UTC, Manu wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, 26 Jun 2018 at 10:43, Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d
>> <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 26 June 2018 at 19:41, Manu via Digitalmars-d
>>> <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
>>> > On Mon, 25 Jun 2018 at 20:50, Nicholas Wilson via > Digitalmars-d
>>> > <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> Then use LDC! ;)
>>> >
>>> > Keep LDC up to date with DMD master daily! ;)
>>>
>>> Like what GDC is doing  (almost) ;-)
>>
>>
>> Orly? Have you gotten GDC to a point where you can actively keep up to
>> date? You should definitely advertise that better, I think most users
>> still presume that GDC is a few revisions behind latest.
>> Do you have nightly builds that are close to the DMD nightlies?
>>
>> Sadly we're working with the MSVC ABI, and I don't think GCC has a backend
>> for that arch do they? LLVM has done a lot of work to interop with MSVC.
>
>
> D frontend was merged into GDC master. It is version 2.076 now. The older
> version was merged to make the switch easy and just replace the C++ frontend
> with the same version of the D frontend. There is a pull request to merge
> 2.080-beta into master:
>
> https://github.com/D-Programming-GDC/GDC/pull/683
>
> But some tests are still fail.
>
> There is no nightly builds for DMD. It is currently more important to keep
> GDC up to date with GCC master (I'm updating GDC to to work with GCC weekly
> snapshots), because it would help to get GDC merged into GCC.
>
> I can't currently promise anything but I wanted to build GDC binaries (gcc-7
> or gcc-8) for me with a new frontend (2.080) and for Ubuntu, so other people
> can use it. Not sure how difficult will it be to update to the newer
> D-frontend versions (2.081 ... and so on), so not sure if I'll be able to
> help Iain much with that.
>
> I should probably write some announcement about the latest work on GDC :).

Well, once in sync with dmd/stable. A weekly (or more frequent) check
would all that would be needed.  A weekly merge would be trivial to
maintain.