[dmd-beta] For those who want to try out new features

[Walter Bright]

3647 shows as fixed in bugzilla.

Rainer Schuetze wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for the beta.
>
> I've run this version against qtd, and it still fails. But using the 
> current revision from svn with patches for the last dmd-version shows 
> that there are no regressions (apart from detecting a tiny error in 
> qtd that has yet gone unnoticed).
>
> So, if you want to make the qtd-people happy, issues #3600 and #3647 
> should be addressed.
>
> And another thing: when there are forward references that are not 
> resolved for a long time, Module::runDeferredSemantic() can waste a 
> lot of memory and cpu-cycles. It should not retry between every new 
> symbol in a class or struct, but only when some sensible progress is 
> made (e.g. if Module::dprogress > 0). runDeferredSemantic() must then 
> be forced to run once before running semantic2() on the modules.
> It's not easy to create a small test case, but qtd fails to compile 
> with "out of memory" without this change.
>
> Best,
> Rainer
>
>
> Brad Roberts wrote:
>> Slightly annoying to have to download just to get that one file, but 
>> the change log is in the zip file along side all the rest of the 
>> website html files.  But, once you have the whole thing downloaded, 
>> might as well do some testing of it. :)
>>
>> On Thu, 14 Jan 2010, Steve Schveighoffer wrote:
>>
>>  
>>> care to cobble together a list of said features?
>>>
>>> -Steve
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----
>>>    
>>>> From: Walter Bright <walter at digitalmars.com>
>>>> You can download the software as a zip file from:
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