Creeping Bloat in Phobos

[H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d]

On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 03:26:35PM -0700, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On 9/27/2014 2:59 PM, Peter Alexander wrote:
> >On Saturday, 27 September 2014 at 20:57:53 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> >>From time to time, I take a break from bugs and enhancements and
> >>just look at what some piece of code is actually doing. Sometimes,
> >>I'm appalled.
> >
> >Me too, and yes it can be appalling. It's pretty bad for even simple
> >range chains, e.g.
> >
> >import std.algorithm, std.stdio;
> >int main(string[] args) {
> >   return cast(int)args.map!("a.length").reduce!"a+b"();
> >}
> >
> >Here's what LDC produces (with -O -inline -release -noboundscheck)
> 
> Part of this particular case problem is not a compiler optimizer
> weakness, but that autodecode problem I've been throwing (!) chairs
> through windows on.

If we can get Andrei on board, I'm all for killing off autodecoding.


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