== Quote from dsimcha ([email protected])'s article > On 4/24/2011 4:04 PM, Iain Buclaw wrote: > > == Quote from dsimcha ([email protected])'s article > >> I've been curious for a while how close GDC2 and LDC2 are to being ready > >> for production use. Are the test suite results posted publicly for > >> either of these? Other than that, is there anything else other than > >> building and testing for myself that would give me a good idea of where > >> these libraries stand? > > > > I don't think it is "dsmicha's production" ready. Though if you write D2 > > code > > conservatively there should be little reason why things should go wrong. :~) > LOL. I mean, this really made me laugh out loud. I see I've gotten a > (probably well-deserved) reputation around here for pushing compilers to > the limit and finding every bug imaginable. Yeah, std.parallelism is > horribly broken with GDC on Windows. I haven't tested on Linux yet. As > far as I can tell the brokenness is deterministic, so it's very unlikely > to be latent concurrency bugs. The funny thing is that most of the bugs > I've filed against GDC have been culled from (of all things) a > statistics library I wrote. Same with most of the bugs I found in the > DMD 64-bit port. How a statistics library could possibly be so good for > finding compiler bugs that the test suites miss, I'll never know.
As some anecdote goes, bugs will be found once you stop looking.
