Performance improvements for D / DMD compiler.

[janderson]

janderson wrote:
> Dave wrote:
>>
>> What's on your wish-list (let's leave the GC and other library 
>> functionality out of this for now <g>)?
>>
>> Here's mine:
>>   - Better floating point code generation
>>   - Put the tail-recursion optimization back in
>>   - Omit frame pointers w/ -O switch
>>   - Improved in-lining (don't arbitrarily exclude functions w/ inout 
>> parameters and loops).
>>   - Auto-finalization.
> 
> The above and:
> 
> - Better GC that uses meta data to only track pointers (rather then any 
> number within a specific range).
> 
> - Improved efficient library functions (perhaps tango will fix this).
> 
> -Joel


Also:

Something like ned-malloc in the standard lib.

-Joel