On 08/30/2013 08:20 AM, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
It's a bit easier to see the code by adding debug symbols and using
dumpbin /disasm main.exe.
Unfortnately, this won't help us a lot, because the intermediate object
files have some unknown format and in fact are just transferring some
code representation to the linker that then invokes the compiler and
optimizer on the full source code. This is very specific to the C/C++
toolchain and I don't think we can take advantage of it.
This is sadly true for the dmd->COFF->VC link toolchain.
But we'll likely see this from GDC or LDC in the future.
Despite that I don't think this is a huge performance issue at all
we could put all the import data pointers in one section so that they
are all packed and allow efficient use of the CPU cache.
