dcollections 1.0 and 2.0a beta released

[bearophile]

Michel Fortin:

> Surely going through all those virtual calls slows things down a lot.<

Right. But the purpose of a good compiler is to kill those, devirtualizing. LLVM devs are working on this too. See:
http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=6054
http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=3100

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Steven Schveighoffer:

>The problem with using generic code is that the compiler will needlessly duplicate functions that are identical.<

See the  -mergefunc  compiler switch of LDC, to merge identical functions (like ones produced by template instantiations). This feature is not very powerful yet, but it's present and I have seen it works. See:
http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=6712
http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php?art_group=digitalmars.D&article_id=108275

Bye,
bearophile