Do you think if statement as expression would be nice to have in D?

[Bruce Carneal]

On Tuesday, 7 June 2022 at 04:53:36 UTC, bauss wrote:
> On Tuesday, 7 June 2022 at 01:24:07 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>>
>> There is a persistent idea that there is something 
>> fundamentally wrong with DMD. There isn't. It's just that 
>> optimization involves an accumulation of a large number of 
>> special cases, and clang has a lot of people adding special 
>> cases.
>>
>
> I have only ever used DMD, never bothered using anything else 
> and it has never hindered any of my work or mattered in the 
> slightest.
>
> Nothing I work with suffers from the difference in optimization 
> as I don't have anything that's real-time sensitive.
>
> As long as the work is done in a reasonable amount of time 
> (That of course depends on what it is.) then I'm fine with it.
>
> Typically the difference is in the milliseconds, which won't 
> matter much for most enterprise work.

Mileage varies of course.  If watts and/or throughput is 
important, and you're working on something that admits data 
parallelism, ldc and gdc can help.  Here's an example of a 32X 
speedup (16X if you cripple the target): 
https://godbolt.org/z/bT7qKnfMP