GDC2, LDC2 Status Updates?

[Iain Buclaw]

== Quote from dsimcha (dsimcha at yahoo.com)'s article
> On 4/24/2011 4:04 PM, Iain Buclaw wrote:
> > == Quote from dsimcha (dsimcha at yahoo.com)'s article
> >> I've been curious for a while how close GDC2 and LDC2 are to being ready
> >> for production use.  Are the test suite results posted publicly for
> >> either of these?  Other than that, is there anything else other than
> >> building and testing for myself that would give me a good idea of where
> >> these libraries stand?
> >
> > I don't think it is "dsmicha's production" ready. Though if you write D2 code
> > conservatively there should be little reason why things should go wrong. :~)
> LOL.  I mean, this really made me laugh out loud.  I see I've gotten a
> (probably well-deserved) reputation around here for pushing compilers to
> the limit and finding every bug imaginable.  Yeah, std.parallelism is
> horribly broken with GDC on Windows.  I haven't tested on Linux yet.  As
> far as I can tell the brokenness is deterministic, so it's very unlikely
> to be latent concurrency bugs.  The funny thing is that most of the bugs
> I've filed against GDC have been culled from (of all things) a
> statistics library I wrote.  Same with most of the bugs I found in the
> DMD 64-bit port.  How a statistics library could possibly be so good for
> finding compiler bugs that the test suites miss, I'll never know.

As some anecdote goes, bugs will be found once you stop looking.