A language comparison (seeking productivity-enhancing, well-designed, and concise languages)

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Re: amoeba, a chess engine written in D

On Sunday, 22 May 2016 at 21:22:30 UTC, Richard Delorme wrote: A question: why singleobj is not activated by a -Ox options? It changes compiler behaviour – only a single object file is produced. Historically, the default behaviour was used by some people/build systems for incremental

Re: My ACCU 2016 keynote video available online

On Thursday, 19 May 2016 at 12:54:48 UTC, Jens Müller wrote: For example what's equivalent to gdc's -ffast-math in ldc. This is: https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/pull/1472 Working on performance improvements is a lot of fun. Please feed us with code that doesn't run as fast as it

Re: amoeba, a chess engine written in D

On Sunday, 22 May 2016 at 11:20:44 UTC, John Colvin wrote: LDC might benefit from copying the _popcnt source from ldc's druntime in to your code as it has a problem inlining it from druntime. You might also see a benefit from the -single-obj flag (enabled by default in ldmd). Thank you for

Re: Release DUB 0.9.25, new logo and updated website design

On Sunday, 22 May 2016 at 19:36:39 UTC, Sönke Ludwig wrote: This version marks the final milestone before the 1.0.0 release, which is scheduled for mid-June. The API has been cleaned up and will be kept backwards compatible throughout 1.x.x (0.9.25->1.0.0 may still have some breaking changes).

Re: My ACCU 2016 keynote video available online

On Thursday, 19 May 2016 at 12:54:48 UTC, Jens Müller wrote: But ldc looks so bad. Any comments from ldc users or developers? Because I see this in many other measurements as well. This definitely does not match up with my experience. Particularly if you see this in many measurements, there

Re: Release DUB 0.9.25, new logo and updated website design

On Sunday, 22 May 2016 at 19:36:39 UTC, Sönke Ludwig wrote: registry, and the site style has been adjusted to fit the general dlang.org design (thanks to Sebastian Wilzbach!). Hi. Is possible change font to something more readable? For example, like font on http://dlang.org

Re: Release DUB 0.9.25, new logo and updated website design

On Sunday, 22 May 2016 at 19:36:39 UTC, Sönke Ludwig wrote: This version marks the final milestone before the 1.0.0 release, which is scheduled for mid-June. The API has been cleaned up and will be kept backwards compatible throughout 1.x.x (0.9.25->1.0.0 may still have some breaking changes).

Release DUB 0.9.25, new logo and updated website design

This version marks the final milestone before the 1.0.0 release, which is scheduled for mid-June. The API has been cleaned up and will be kept backwards compatible throughout 1.x.x (0.9.25->1.0.0 may still have some breaking changes). Beginning with version 1.0.0, DUB will also become part of

Re: amoeba, a chess engine written in D

On Friday, 20 May 2016 at 23:16:01 UTC, Richard Delorme wrote: The source can be compiled with dmd, ldc or gdc, but the best performance are obtained with the latter (almost twice faster). Allowing LDC to do cross-module optimisations (by adding the -singleobj flag) and make use of popcnt

Re: amoeba, a chess engine written in D

On Saturday, 21 May 2016 at 10:10:21 UTC, Richard Delorme wrote: On Saturday, 21 May 2016 at 00:29:13 UTC, extrawurst wrote: [...] Yes, It is a strong program, but far from the top programs yet. In the ccrl scale: http://www.computerchess.org.uk/ccrl/4040/ I guess its rating is close to 2700.

Re: My ACCU 2016 keynote video available online

On Saturday, 21 May 2016 at 13:51:11 UTC, Manu wrote: On 21 May 2016 at 23:20, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On 05/21/2016 04:45 AM, Manu via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: [...] I guess a lot more detail would be necessary

Re: amoeba, a chess engine written in D

On Friday, 20 May 2016 at 23:16:01 UTC, Richard Delorme wrote: I am pleased to announce the release of a chess engine written in D: https://github.com/abulmo/amoeba I am not aware of any other chess engine written with the D language. The source can be compiled with dmd, ldc or gdc, but the

Re: amoeba, a chess engine written in D

On Saturday, 21 May 2016 at 16:25:27 UTC, Richard Delorme wrote: With the above versions & my poor knowledge of the compilers, pgo & BUILD=popcount only worked with gdc. I will try to upgrade to more recent versions to see if things changed. With LDC, you can pass "-mattr=+popcnt" to use