Do you think if statement as expression would be nice to have in D?

[zjh]

On Tuesday, 7 June 2022 at 08:44:27 UTC, max haughton wrote:

>
> This IR and the lack of structure around operations on it is 
> why dmd has so many bugs wrt things like SIMD code generation. 
> GCC and LLVM learnt the hard way that you need to segment work 
> into multiple passes and possibly different data structures 
> entirely (either artificially, like LCSSA, or using an entirely 
> different IR like GCC's rtl). These are not cheap things to do 
> but paying for them also buys you correctness.
>
> dmd should just focus on being the debug compiler i.e. be fast. 
> I would much rather have the codebase be clean enough that I 
> could easily get it generating code on my AArch64 Mac than have 
> it chase after being able to do xyz. I will never actually care 
> about dmds ability to optimize something.

However, I hope `'DMD'` can work on the `back end`.` D` author 
can make use of his `back-end` knowledge, and do not have to 
follow the `'llvm''s` path!
`Llvm` is not necessarily the best
.