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

2013-07-30 Thread Regan Heath
On Mon, 29 Jul 2013 20:05:08 +0100, John Colvin john.loughran.col...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday, 29 July 2013 at 18:34:16 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 7/29/2013 5:28 AM, John Colvin wrote: Seriously... Walter wouldn't have got his mechanical engineering degree if he didn't know how to

Re: Increasing D Compiler Speed by Over 75%

2013-07-30 Thread Temtaime
DMC is ugly compiler. It will be much nicer if you'll use mingw for that purpose on Windows. GCC usually generates more faster code that VC does. http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingwbuilds/

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 a program is just

Article about Applied D

2013-07-30 Thread Chris
Dear Dees, Here is the article. I've set up a (temporary?) blog for it. The article deals with the usability of D and how it helped to solve certain problems. It's not about benchmarking, concurrency, unit tests and the like. Just about how practical it is. Here it is, warts and all:

Re: Article about Applied D

2013-07-30 Thread Meta
It's a good why should I care about D article. I frequent Hacker News, and one thing that seems to get people really hyped about a language is Getting Things Done, as well as all the functional programming hype. One thing that caught my eye: I also recommend the book The D Programming

Re: Article about Applied D

2013-07-30 Thread Dicebot
On Tuesday, 30 July 2013 at 13:53:24 UTC, Chris wrote: Dear Dees, Here is the article. I've set up a (temporary?) blog for it. The article deals with the usability of D and how it helped to solve certain problems. It's not about benchmarking, concurrency, unit tests and the like. Just about

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

2013-07-30 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 7/30/13 4:10 AM, JS wrote: It depends on the audience, but to write an article that is informal then use a very formal definition of speed is just begging for problems. It's hard for me to really imagine that lines is a measurement of distance and speed is lines per second... but even if I

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

2013-07-30 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 7/30/13 2:59 AM, Leandro Lucarella wrote: I just want to point out that being so much people getting this wrong (and even fighting to convince other people that the wrong interpretation is right) might be an indication that the message you wanted to give in that blog is not extremely clear :)

Re: Increasing D Compiler Speed by Over 75%

2013-07-30 Thread Brad Anderson
On Tuesday, 30 July 2013 at 09:04:10 UTC, Temtaime wrote: DMC is ugly compiler. It will be much nicer if you'll use mingw for that purpose on Windows. GCC usually generates more faster code that VC does. http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingwbuilds/ I'm willing to bet Walter would accept pull

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

2013-07-30 Thread Walter Bright
On 7/30/2013 11:02 AM, Dmitry Olshansky wrote: 26-Jul-2013 23:17, Walter Bright пишет: How about a pull request so we can try it out? Preliminary pull is here: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/2436 So far it looses a bit. :-) That's often been my experience. I'm still

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

2013-07-30 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 7/30/13 11:13 AM, Walter Bright wrote: On 7/30/2013 2:59 AM, Leandro Lucarella wrote: I just want to point out that being so much people getting this wrong (and even fighting to convince other people that the wrong interpretation is right) might be an indication that the message you wanted

Re: Article about Applied D

2013-07-30 Thread Chris
On Tuesday, 30 July 2013 at 19:04:12 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 7/30/13 8:47 AM, Meta wrote: It's a good why should I care about D article. I frequent Hacker News, and one thing that seems to get people really hyped about a language is Getting Things Done, as well as all the functional

Re: Article about Applied D

2013-07-30 Thread Chris
On Tuesday, 30 July 2013 at 14:21:06 UTC, bearophile wrote: Chris: http://wendlerchristoph.wordpress.com/2013/07/30/probably-d/ [Python] copyright issues (easily decompilable byte code) Is that true? For small D examples I suggest the Rosettacode site (when its site isn't down). Bye,

Re: Article about Applied D

2013-07-30 Thread Chris
On Tuesday, 30 July 2013 at 15:47:29 UTC, Meta wrote: It's a good why should I care about D article. I frequent Hacker News, and one thing that seems to get people really hyped about a language is Getting Things Done, as well as all the functional programming hype. That was the reason why

Re: Article about Applied D

2013-07-30 Thread Chris
On Tuesday, 30 July 2013 at 17:23:34 UTC, Dicebot wrote: Good one, worth sharing. As a D user I'd probably love to see more technical details but for a wider public it is a solid match. The technical details are rather boring. Good old OOP and I made use of D's structs and some other nice

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

2013-07-30 Thread Bill Baxter
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 12:05 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org wrote: On 7/30/13 11:13 AM, Walter Bright wrote: On 7/30/2013 2:59 AM, Leandro Lucarella wrote: I just want to point out that being so much people getting this wrong (and even fighting to convince other

Re: Increasing D Compiler Speed by Over 75%

2013-07-30 Thread Walter Bright
On 7/30/2013 11:16 AM, Brad Anderson wrote: Sidenote: Insulting Walter's work isn't a great way to get him to do your a favor. I'm sad that I never got the opportunity to be insulted by Jobs.

Re: GoingNative 2013

2013-07-30 Thread Walter Bright
On 7/30/2013 1:14 PM, Adam Wilson wrote: Since I've never been before, I would like to know if there is a place that I can setup a laptop in the lecture hall. I *really* want to go to this, but I have product launch two weeks prior at VSLive (also at MSFT) and it may need emergency support.

Re: GoingNative 2013

2013-07-30 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 7/30/13 1:14 PM, Adam Wilson wrote: On Mon, 29 Jul 2013 15:12:39 -0700, Walter Bright newshou...@digitalmars.com wrote: http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/GoingNative/2013 The last one was a lot of fun, so I signed up for this one, too. Note that Andrei is a speaker! Recommended. See y'all