Re: Article: Increasing the D Compiler Speed by Over 75%

2013-07-30 Thread JS
On Tuesday, 30 July 2013 at 10:08:22 UTC, Leandro Lucarella wrote: JS, el 29 de July a las 22:32 me escribiste: On Monday, 29 July 2013 at 19:38:51 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: >On 7/29/2013 12:08 PM, JS wrote: >>Trying to use distance and speed as a measure of performance >>of

Re: Article: Increasing the D Compiler Speed by Over 75%

2013-07-29 Thread JS
On Monday, 29 July 2013 at 19:38:51 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 7/29/2013 12:08 PM, JS wrote: Trying to use distance and speed as a measure of performance of a program is just ridiculous. If you google "program execution speed" you'll find it's a commonly used term. &qu

Re: Article: Increasing the D Compiler Speed by Over 75%

2013-07-29 Thread JS
On Monday, 29 July 2013 at 12:28:16 UTC, John Colvin wrote: On Monday, 29 July 2013 at 10:15:31 UTC, JS wrote: On Thursday, 25 July 2013 at 21:27:47 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 7/25/2013 11:49 AM, Dmitry S wrote: I am also confused by the numbers. What I see at the end of the article is

Re: Article: Increasing the D Compiler Speed by Over 75%

2013-07-29 Thread JS
On Monday, 29 July 2013 at 14:39:02 UTC, John Colvin wrote: On Monday, 29 July 2013 at 13:05:10 UTC, JS wrote: On Monday, 29 July 2013 at 12:36:36 UTC, John Colvin wrote: On Monday, 29 July 2013 at 12:35:59 UTC, John Colvin wrote: On Monday, 29 July 2013 at 12:17:22 UTC, JS wrote: Even

Re: Article: Increasing the D Compiler Speed by Over 75%

2013-07-29 Thread JS
On Monday, 29 July 2013 at 12:36:36 UTC, John Colvin wrote: On Monday, 29 July 2013 at 12:35:59 UTC, John Colvin wrote: On Monday, 29 July 2013 at 12:17:22 UTC, JS wrote: Even something like for(;;) { if (random() == 3) break; } is decidable(it will halt after some time). That program has

Re: Article: Increasing the D Compiler Speed by Over 75%

2013-07-29 Thread JS
On Monday, 29 July 2013 at 11:46:05 UTC, Leandro Motta Barros wrote: This may be off topic, but here I go anyway... Back in the school days, I joked that the Halting Problem is actually easy to solve with a Turing Machine. Since a Turing Machine is a theoretical device that exists only in our

Re: Article: Increasing the D Compiler Speed by Over 75%

2013-07-29 Thread JS
On Thursday, 25 July 2013 at 21:27:47 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 7/25/2013 11:49 AM, Dmitry S wrote: I am also confused by the numbers. What I see at the end of the article is "21.56 seconds, and the latest development version does it in 12.19", which is really a 43% improvement. (Which is r

Re: Is this D or is it Javascript?

2013-07-05 Thread JS
On Saturday, 6 July 2013 at 00:27:45 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Friday, 5 July 2013 at 23:35:54 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I think you really should put the code in shape and convert your initial post into a blog entry. You know, I have a lot of things I want to blab about, but the pro