On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 3:00 PM, Don <[email protected]> wrote: > bearophile wrote: >> >> Jarrett Billingsley: >>> >>> His library works by having you write your code in a DSL in strings, >>> which you pass to the library and then mix in the resulting X86. >> >> Have someone some benchmarks that show such Blade give some performance >> improvements over code produced by DMD and LDC? This is the most important >> thing, otherwise such things aren't useful. > > It's MUCH faster. Factor of 5 is typical. > BTW, Blade is currently unusable because of the CTFE memory allocation bug. > Also, now that array operations are in the language, it's much less > necessary for the application I created it for.
A good opportunity to mention once again that LDC guys have figured out some compile settings that seem to fix the problem. http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1382 >From what I can tell they've had it fixed in LDC since mid-November by applying that change with no problems. Christian K., can you confirm that it's been working fine in LDC? --bb
