Suggestion: Build windows DMD with MSVC

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Sunday, June 02, 2013 08:33:20 Manu wrote:
> Right, so the original question was, would whoever does the dmd releases
> consider building the release binaries with msvc? Is it Walter? Doubling
> the compiler's performance is significant. CTFE heavy code gets a much
> bigger boost too in my experience.

At this point, the whole release is done by Walter locally. He _might_ have 
now given enough information to reproduce it recently when some folks were 
bugging him about it, but it involves running a set of commands that are only 
known to him and anyone who read the posting where he gave them. We really 
need to get to the point that they're being generated by something like 
autotester (potentially on a nightly basis as well so that anyone can easily 
grab the latest code if they want to mess around with the current development 
version).

Andrei and others have been pointing out for a while that all of the testing 
and release stuff that Walter does locally should be automated and reproducible 
by others, and we're getting there bit by bit, but we aren't there quite yet.

- Jonathan M Davis