Available D2 implementation on Windows besides DMD?

[Robert Clipsham]

On 10/06/2011 21:18, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On 2011-06-10 13:15, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> "Robert Clipsham"<robert at octarineparrot.com>  wrote in message
>> news:ist1af$tbj$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>
>>> As for how well they optimize code, dmd has a state of the art optimizer
>>> from the 90s, or there abouts - the code it generates is pretty speedy,
>>> it has some obvious short comings though (I believe floating point and
>>> inlining are lacking, as well as some more modern optimizations).
>>
>> I'm pretty sure DMD does inlining. After all, it *does* have an "-inline"
>> commandlne flag. My understanding is that it just doesn't always inline
>> everything it could.
>
> dmd _definitely_ has inlining. It could use some improvement (e.g. functions
> with lazy parameters can't currently be inlined), but it _does_ have inlining.
> And dmd's optimizations aren't bad. It's just that they could be better. I
> expect that we'll see them improve further once the language has stablized
> more. As much as faster code would be nice, correct code is much more
> important. And there are still plenty of bugs to iron out in the compiler
> (though it's definitely improving).
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

Indeed, by lacking I didn't mean lacking the feature, I meant lacking in 
functionality/ability, there are a lot of things that it could inline 
but doesn't currently.

-- 
Robert
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