bearophile wrote:
> kai:
>
>> I was scared off by the warning that D 2.0 support is experimental.
>
> LDC is D1 still, mostly :-(
> And at the moment it uses LLVM 2.6.
> LLVM 2.7 contains a new optimization that can improve that code some more.
>
>
>> Good to know, thanks (thats actually a great feature for scientists!).
>
> In theory D is a bit fit for numerical computations too, but there is lot of
> work to do still. And some parts of D design will need to be improved to help
> numerical code performance.
>
> From my extensive tests, if you use it correctly, D1 code compiled with LDC
> can be about as efficient as C code compiled with GCC or sometimes a little
> more efficient.
>
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>
> Steven Schveighoffer:
>> In C/C++, the default value for doubles is 0.
>
> I think in C and C++ the default value for doubles is "uninitialized" (that
> is anything).
>
That depends. In C/C++, the default value for any global variable
is to have all bits set to 0 whatever that means for the actual data
type. The default value for local variables and malloc/new memory is
"whatever was in this place in memory before" which can be anything.
The default value for calloc is to have all bits to 0 as for global
variables.
In the OP code, the malloc will probably return memory that has
never been used before, therefore probably initialized to 0 too (OS
dependent).
Jerome
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