On Tuesday, 7 January 2014 at 06:03:55 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 1/6/2014 8:55 PM, deadalnix wrote:
On Tuesday, 7 January 2014 at 04:37:12 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
On 1/6/2014 7:20 PM, deadalnix wrote:
On Tuesday, 7 January 2014 at 03:18:01 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
Or you could amend the documentation to say that null
checks will not be
removed even if they occur after a dereference.
Which won't be true with LDC and GDC.
You're assuming that LDC and GDC are stuck with C semantics.
Unless we plan to rewrite our own optimizer, they are to some
extent.
I don't buy that. The back ends are built to compile multiple
languages, hence they'll have multiple sets of requirements to
contend with.
Another case where D is "inherently faster" than C? ;-)
