dmd codegen improvements

[Timon Gehr via Digitalmars-d]

On 08/30/2015 01:10 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Saturday, 29 August 2015 at 13:06:58 UTC, David Nadlinger wrote:
>> On Saturday, 29 August 2015 at 12:59:59 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
>>> I'm happy with the codegen the way it is, it is good enough for me,
>>> but let's not make mountains out of hills.
>>
>> But the fact is that many people are not. Even the core language team,
>> who doesn't want their compiler to get 30% slower on the next release.
>
> LOL. I've actually run into a fun problem with the program that I use to
> update dmd on my box. It needs root permissions to install dmd, so it
> does sudo up front to get the password and then reruns it before every
> command to reset the sudo timer. Before dmd switched to the D front-end,
> that worked, and I didn't have to type in my password again. So, I could
> just kick off the update program and leave. However, after the switch to
> D, the Phobos build and tests take longer than 5 minutes (or whatever
> the exact sudo timeout is), and I keep having to rerun my program to
> update dmd, because I run it and forget about it, and sudo eventually
> times out waiting for me to type in the password and terminates the
> update program. If my computer were faster, this wouldn't be a problem,
> but it worked prior to the move to D, and it doesn't now. So, from that
> standpoint, the 30% loss of speed in dmd is already costing me.


I think there's a way to increase the default timeout. :-)