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

[Walter Bright]

On 6/6/2022 9:53 PM, bauss wrote:
> Typically the difference is in the milliseconds, which won't matter much for 
> most enterprise work.

Thanks for the kind words! A few years ago, one person posted here that clang 
invented data flow analysis and I should add it to dmd. I replied with a link to 
the data flow analysis code in dmd, that was written in 1985 or so :-)

Math is math, and DFA hasn't changed much in the last 40 years.

One amusing thing about it is when my compiler acquired DFA, there was a C 
compiler benchmark roundup in one of the computer magazines. The results were 
thrown out for my compiler, as the journalist concluded it had a bug in it where 
it deleted the test suite code. He wrote lots of bad things as a result.

What actually happened was the DFA deduced that the magazine's benchmark code 
did not use the result, so threw it away.

The result of that article, though, destroyed my sales for a quarter or so. Then 
other compilers added DFA, and the benchmark code got fixed for the next 
compiler roundup.

Sigh.