[phobos] [dmd-beta] Getting Beta: dmd 1.067 and 2.052 beta

[Walter Bright]

I expect it will take at least a couple releases before the 64 bit 
compiler is reasonably solid. Few will actually try it until it is 
released. That's just the way of things.

One difficulty is the D test suite does not have a lot in it to test the 
optimizer/code generator. That's because the test suite consists of 
tests for things that failed in the past, and the optimizer/code 
generator was already solid from the C++ usage. The C++ compiler test 
suite does test the optimizer/code generator, but it isn't 64 bit.

Brad Roberts wrote:
> Depends on your definition of real world.  A whole lot of the dmd test suite is distilled past problems from real world
> code.  What is usually called regression tests.  The 3 test suites aren't small.  Through those, a huge number of issues
> similar to yours have been found and fixed.  There's a little app in the dmd test suite that actually drives the
> testing.  It's small, but it's real worldish.
>
> That said, I don't have any production d code of any flavor.
>
> On 2/16/2011 10:14 AM, David Simcha wrote:
>   
>> So am I really the only one that's tested DMD64 on any real-world code besides Phobos and druntime so far?
>>
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