Plan for D
Ola Fosheim Grostad
ola.fosheim.grostad at gmail.com
Tue May 18 12:37:39 UTC 2021
On Tuesday, 18 May 2021 at 10:29:24 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grostad
wrote:
> On Tuesday, 18 May 2021 at 10:11:10 UTC, Dukc wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 18 May 2021 at 09:47:45 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grostad
>> wrote:
>>> Well, what I said is considered a norm in academic circles.
>>> So the belief that compilers is a show case is not uncommon.
>>>
>>> I would never judge a standard library as they tend to be
>>> affected by issues related to code gen and OS. The standard
>>> library is kinda part of the compiler backend and runtime. It
>>> is common for standard libs to be unidiomatic.
>>
>> So, if I understood right you're criticizing DMD
>> implementation, not D memory management options?
>
> There should be other options, but if you have a solution for
> DMD then it would be expexted to be enabled by default. If it
> isn't, how can you expect pergformance conscious system level
> programmers to think there is an good solution available? Show
> not tell...
And to avoid any misunderstanding I think that a GC ought to be
good enough for a single threaded batch compiler, but you would
need to measure using stress tests to find when performance
deteriorates and by how much.
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