On Wednesday, 17 August 2016 at 12:32:20 UTC, ketmar wrote:
from my PoV, this kind of "optimizing" is overrated. i'm absolutely unable to understand why should i obey orders from machine instead of machine obeys my orders. if i want to go wild with pointers, don't tell me that i can't, just compile my code! C is literally ridden with this shit, and in the end it is a freakin' pain to write correct C code (if it is possible at all for something comlex).
Because making 99.9% of the code slower because of a fringe use case isn't sound engineering. Especially since there are already ways to do this is a way that makes the AA happy, for instance using unions.
