[GSoC 2025] Templated Hooks - Weekly Update #8

[Luna]

On Monday, 28 July 2025 at 18:30:12 UTC, AlbertG wrote:
> This week I have checked on Rainer's PR [1], helping a bit with 
> some failing tests. The PR now seems to be pretty much ready to 
> be merged.
>
> I have also created benchmarks for the templatized 
> `_d_arrayliteralTX`[2] and AA[3] hooks. The results for [2] ran 
> with dmd were pretty good, showing both performance 
> improvements and size reductions in the libdruntime/libphobos. 
> I am going to run [3] as well, but might wait until the PR is 
> merged. In any case, there won't be any conclusive results 
> until the modifications are integrated into ldc/gdc and tested 
> with those compilers.
>
> [1] https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/21066
> [2] https://github.com/teodutu/druntime-hooks-benchmarks/pull/5
> [3] https://github.com/teodutu/druntime-hooks-benchmarks/pull/6

Excited to see the progress on the hook templatisation, going to 
make it easier to maintain custom runtimes.