[OT] Walter's anecdotes

[rikki cattermole]

On 09/08/2021 12:56 PM, Mark wrote:
> Just to add to that. Does DMD use the standard library (phobos)? It 

No.

> doesn't so any optimizations in phobos won't get passed down to DMD 
> because it uses a small run down library that no one really keeps up to 

That bit of code is probably older than me... (and that's a good thing).

> date. DMD should start using phobos I think. That might be a good place 
> to start with making DMD faster.

Unlikely to improve performance, the things that are slow should not be 
in phobos. All it does is introduce new requirements for bootstrapping 
it which is rather bad news long term.