D component programming is a joke (Was: Re: Component programming)

[bearophile]

Walter Bright:

> But consider that optimizers are built to optimize typical code 
> patterns. Component programming is fairly non-existent in C and 
> C++, and is new in D. Hence, optimizers are not set up to deal 
> with those patterns (yet).

I agree.

GHC also works with a LLVM back-end, so those optimizations are 
done in some kind of middle-end.

Probably a silly idea: perhaps we can collect some money, like 
1000-2000 dollars, to pay for a 3 day long course for Walter 
(total about 15 hours) about such matters.

Bye,
bearophile