On Monday, 7 January 2013 at 17:05:19 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
On Monday, January 07, 2013 11:13:55 Russel Winder wrote:
LDC is though still generally creating faster executables than
DMD. This is just a gut feeling right now, in a couple of
weeks time I'll see if I can get some actual numbers.
I wouldn't expect that to change anytime soon. Work would have
to be put in on specifically make dmd generate faster code, and
AFAIK, pretty much all of the compiler work is being put into
bug fixing and implementing a few new features (like Win64
support). I wouldn't expect improved optimizations to enter
into the picture much until the bug count is much lower unless
someone takes a liking to spending time improving dmd's code
generation.
If I recall right, one of the larger slowdowns was during large
struct initialization, as dmd wrote individual instructions to
fill in the struct. I wouldn't think it would be that hard to fix
that, then compare speeds, they might be closer to equal than we
think.
