dmd codegen improvements

ChangLong via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Wed Aug 19 04:03:33 PDT 2015


On Tuesday, 18 August 2015 at 12:58:45 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> On Tuesday, 18 August 2015 at 12:37:37 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev 
> wrote:
>> I think stability of the DMD backend is a goal of much higher 
>> value than the performance of the code it emits. DMD is never 
>> going to match the code generation quality of LLVM and GCC, 
>> which have had many, many man-years invested in them. Working 
>> on DMD optimizations is essentially duplicating this work, and 
>> IMHO I think it's not only a waste of time, but harmful to D 
>> because of the risk of regressions.
>
> +1

+1


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