For the lulz: ddmd vs libdparse lexer timings

[Brian Schott via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 5 January 2015 at 03:01:11 UTC, Daniel Murphy wrote:
> "Brian Schott"  wrote in message 
> news:phwlklufefyocyuliima at forum.dlang.org...
>
>> Looks like it's time to spend some more time with perf:
>>
>> http://i.imgur.com/k50dFbU.png
>
> Nice!
>
>> I had to hack the ddmd code to get it compile (more "1337 h4x" 
>> were required to compile with LDC than with DMD), so I haven't 
>> uploaded the code for the benchmark to Github yet.
>
> Were you compiling it with 2.066.1 or master?  I'd be 
> interested to see the changes you needed.

DMD 2.066.1 and LDC 0.15.1.

Most of it involved adding some ulong -> uint casts and 
commenting out _d_newclass and everything involving __va_argsave.