Disable GC entirely

[Paulo Pinto]

On Wednesday, 10 April 2013 at 22:50:48 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 4/7/2013 3:59 AM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>> The current compilers just don't have the amount of investment 
>> in more than 20
>> years of code optimization like C++ has. You cannot expect to 
>> achieve that from
>> one moment to the other.
>
> This is incorrect, as dmd, gdc, and ldc all use the backends of 
> C++ compilers, and the code generated is as good as that of the 
> corresponding C++ compiler.

Correct, assuming the frontend organizes the intermediate 
information in a way that the backend can make the best use of 
it, or am I wrong?