DMD backend quality (Was: Re: DIP 1031--Deprecate Brace-Style Struct Initializers--Community Review Round 1 Discussion)

[Guillaume Piolat]

On Tuesday, 18 February 2020 at 04:11:51 UTC, jxel wrote:
> On Monday, 17 February 2020 at 22:25:17 UTC, Walter Bright 
> wrote:
>> On 2/17/2020 1:14 PM, Guillaume Piolat wrote:
>>> I still happily use DMD for most development because it still 
>>> builds faster.
>>> (On Windows, try `dub -a x86 --compiler dmd` and see)
>>> 
>>> But yes adding -O -inline frightens me.
>>> I think DMD should play its strength of generating code very 
>>> quickly :) even at the expense of output performance.
>>
>> No worries, there are no plans to change the fast path through 
>> the backend.
>
> If DMD used LDC to build itself, it'd run even faster. There's 
> a PR open for that iirc.

Yes please !