Major performance problem with std.array.front()

[H. S. Teoh]

On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 08:19:18PM -0800, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 3/6/2014 8:01 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> >BTW you know what would help this? A pragma we can attach to a struct
> >which makes it a very thin value type.
> 
> I'd rather fix the compiler's codegen than add a pragma.
[...]

>From what I understand, structs are *supposed* to be thin value types. I
would say that if a struct is under a certain size (determined by the
compiler), and doesn't have complicated semantics like dtors and stuff
like that, then it should be treated like a POD (passed in registers,
etc).


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