Am 16.02.2014 21:29, schrieb Walter Bright:
On 2/16/2014 12:09 PM, Russel Winder wrote:
Someone with serious knowledge should wade into this campaign of FUD.
The whole thread is wrong-headed.
I enjoyed this comment:
"The D guys have thrown a lot of time behind making their compiler fast"
It's not exactly true. What has happened is I spent a LOT of time trying
to make my C/C++ compiler fast. That experience has enabled me to design
D so it is fundamentally fast to compile, and enabled me to pick an
internal design for the compiler that I know will be fast.
The actual time I've spent profiling and tuning DMD for speed has been
minimal, though I've still gotten caught by a few mistakes.
And there's this regression:
https://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=12137
Walter, they tend to speak about Go compilation times as if Modula-2,
Turbo Pascal, and who knows what else, didn't already had that in the
mid-80's.
Go's fast compilation times are easy to sell to developers that never
used native code compilers besides C and C++ ones.
So many in the Go community think it was kind of an achievement of
language toolchain.
--
Paulo
