Could D benefit from JIT compiling?

Hans Uhlig hans.uhlig at teamaol.com
Mon Dec 5 12:09:17 PST 2011


On 12/2/2011 7:46 AM, Xinok wrote:
> Reading through the 'Java > Scala' thread, I've realized there are some
> benefits to dynamic code generation vs statically compiled code. Things
> like unrolling loops, devirtualizing functions, etc.
>
> So it made me wonder, could D benefit from such technology, not from a
> feature standpoint, but strictly optimization? I'm not familiar with the
> topic, but I imagine there could be a few situations that would benefit
> in terms of performance, as long as it doesn't affect interoperability.

Best place to experiment with this would be in llvm, I believe one of 
the projects is to do this with C/C++ IR code.


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