Re: Meson build system user learning D.

2019-05-23 Thread Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Thu, 2019-05-23 at 04:21 +, Mike Brockus via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: > […] > > That is cool that Atila was kind enough to accept the meson.build > file. But how do I use the written meson.build that is > apparently in the subdirectory directory "build"? Just asking > because

Re: Using D's precise GC when running an app with DUB

2019-05-23 Thread Per Nordlöw via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Thursday, 23 May 2019 at 14:51:41 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote: dub run --compiler=dmd --build=unittest -- --DRT-gcopt=gc:precise Hmm, the flag doesn't propagate to dmd when compiling in verbose mode via -v as dub run -v --compiler=dmd --build=unittest -- --DRT-gcopt=gc:precise

Re: Using D's precise GC when running an app with DUB

2019-05-23 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn
On 24/05/2019 3:01 AM, Per Nordlöw wrote: On Thursday, 23 May 2019 at 14:51:41 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote: dub run --compiler=dmd --build=unittest -- --DRT-gcopt=gc:precise Hmm, the flag doesn't propagate to dmd when compiling in verbose mode via -v as     dub run -v --compiler=dmd

Re: Using D's precise GC when running an app with DUB

2019-05-23 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn
On 24/05/2019 2:58 AM, Per Nordlöw wrote: On Thursday, 23 May 2019 at 14:51:41 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote: dub run --compiler=dmd --build=unittest -- --DRT-gcopt=gc:precise Thanks! And if I want to set this in a dub.sdl? No can do. There is meant to be a way to set it in D however. But I

Re: Using D's precise GC when running an app with DUB

2019-05-23 Thread Per Nordlöw via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Thursday, 23 May 2019 at 15:02:12 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote: And if I want to set this in a dub.sdl? No can do. There is meant to be a way to set it in D however. But I have heard mixed results (not that I've tried it). Should be as easy as dflags "--DRT-gcopt=gc:precise" right?

Using D's precise GC when running an app with DUB

2019-05-23 Thread Per Nordlöw via Digitalmars-d-learn
How do I specify a druntime flag such as --DRT-gcopt=gc:precise when running with dub as dub run --compiler=dmd --build=unittest ? The precise GC flag was introduced in verison 2.085.0 See: - https://dlang.org/changelog/2.085.0.html#gc_precise -

Re: Using D's precise GC when running an app with DUB

2019-05-23 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn
On 24/05/2019 2:50 AM, Per Nordlöw wrote: How do I specify a druntime flag such as     --DRT-gcopt=gc:precise when running with dub as     dub run --compiler=dmd --build=unittest dub run --compiler=dmd --build=unittest -- --DRT-gcopt=gc:precise

Re: Using D's precise GC when running an app with DUB

2019-05-23 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn
On 24/05/2019 3:03 AM, Per Nordlöw wrote: On Thursday, 23 May 2019 at 15:02:12 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote: And if I want to set this in a dub.sdl? No can do. There is meant to be a way to set it in D however. But I have heard mixed results (not that I've tried it). Should be as easy as   

Re: Using D's precise GC when running an app with DUB

2019-05-23 Thread Per Nordlöw via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Thursday, 23 May 2019 at 14:51:41 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote: dub run --compiler=dmd --build=unittest -- --DRT-gcopt=gc:precise Thanks! And if I want to set this in a dub.sdl?

Re: Using D's precise GC when running an app with DUB

2019-05-23 Thread Per Nordlöw via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Thursday, 23 May 2019 at 15:05:15 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote: Should be as easy as     dflags "--DRT-gcopt=gc:precise" right? That would be passed to dmd, not to the build executable upon running. You mean wise versa, right? Now I understand, --DRT-gcopt=gc:precise is passed to

Re: Performance of tables slower than built in?

2019-05-23 Thread Timon Gehr via Digitalmars-d-learn
On 23.05.19 12:21, Alex wrote: On Wednesday, 22 May 2019 at 00:55:37 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Wednesday, 22 May 2019 at 00:22:09 UTC, JS wrote: I am trying to create some fast sin, sinc, and exponential routines to speed up some code by using tables... but it seems it's slower than the

Re: Performance of tables slower than built in?

2019-05-23 Thread Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wednesday, 22 May 2019 at 00:22:09 UTC, JS wrote: I am trying to create some fast sin, sinc, and exponential routines to speed up some code by using tables... but it seems it's slower than the function itself?!? Not when I tried it with one of the online compilers, LUT is 3-4 times faster

Re: Using D's precise GC when running an app with DUB

2019-05-23 Thread Eugene Wissner via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Thursday, 23 May 2019 at 14:50:12 UTC, Per Nordlöw wrote: How do I specify a druntime flag such as --DRT-gcopt=gc:precise when running with dub as dub run --compiler=dmd --build=unittest ? The precise GC flag was introduced in verison 2.085.0 See: -

Re: Why GNU coreutils/dd is creating a dummy file more efficiently than D's For loop?

2019-05-23 Thread H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 06:20:23PM +, kdevel via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: > On Thursday, 23 May 2019 at 09:44:15 UTC, Cym13 wrote: [...] > > To go fast, read/write bigger chunks. > > Or use rawWrite instead of write (reduces the runtime to about 1.6 s). > When using write time is IMHO spent

Re: Why GNU coreutils/dd is creating a dummy file more efficiently than D's For loop?

2019-05-23 Thread kdevel via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Thursday, 23 May 2019 at 09:44:15 UTC, Cym13 wrote: [...] Note in particular the blocksize argument. I set it to 1M but by default it's 512 bytes. If you use strace with the command above you'll see a series of write() calls, each writting 1M of null bytes to testfile. That's the main

Re: Performance of tables slower than built in?

2019-05-23 Thread Alex via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Thursday, 23 May 2019 at 19:17:40 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: On Wednesday, 22 May 2019 at 00:22:09 UTC, JS wrote: xxx = 0; sw.reset(); sw.start(); for(double i = 0; i < 1000; i++) xxx += sin(PI*i); t = sw.peek().msecs; writeln(t);

Re: Why GNU coreutils/dd is creating a dummy file more efficiently than D's For loop?

2019-05-23 Thread Daniel Kozak via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 11:06 PM Daniel Kozak wrote: > On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 11:10 AM BoQsc via Digitalmars-d-learn < > digitalmars-d-learn@puremagic.com> wrote: > > https://matthias-endler.de/2017/yes/ > So this should do it void main() { import std.range : array, cycle, take;

Re: Why GNU coreutils/dd is creating a dummy file more efficiently than D's For loop?

2019-05-23 Thread Daniel Kozák via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Thursday, 23 May 2019 at 18:37:17 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 06:20:23PM +, kdevel via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: On Thursday, 23 May 2019 at 09:44:15 UTC, Cym13 wrote: [...] > To go fast, read/write bigger chunks. Or use rawWrite instead of write (reduces the

Re: Why GNU coreutils/dd is creating a dummy file more efficiently than D's For loop?

2019-05-23 Thread Daniel Kozak via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 11:19 PM Daniel Kozak wrote: Fixed version without decode to dchar void main() { import std.range : array, cycle, take; import std.stdio; import std.utf; immutable buf_size = 8192; immutable buf = "\x00".byCodeUnit.cycle.take(buf_size).array; auto

Re: Why GNU coreutils/dd is creating a dummy file more efficiently than D's For loop?

2019-05-23 Thread Daniel Kozak via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 11:10 AM BoQsc via Digitalmars-d-learn < digitalmars-d-learn@puremagic.com> wrote: > This code of D creates a dummy 47,6 MB text file filled with Nul > characters in about 9 seconds > > import std.stdio, std.process; > > void main() { > > writeln("Creating a dummy

Re: Performance of tables slower than built in?

2019-05-23 Thread Alex via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Thursday, 23 May 2019 at 18:57:03 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: On Wednesday, 22 May 2019 at 00:22:09 UTC, JS wrote: I am trying to create some fast sin, sinc, and exponential routines to speed up some code by using tables... but it seems it's slower than the function itself?!? Not when

Re: Performance of tables slower than built in?

2019-05-23 Thread Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Thursday, 23 May 2019 at 21:30:47 UTC, Alex wrote: I don't see how that can necessarily be faster. A LUT can give full 64-bit precision with one operation. The CORDIC needs iteration, at least 10 to be of any use. LUT's are precision independent assuming the creation cost is not included.

Re: Performance of tables slower than built in?

2019-05-23 Thread Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Thursday, 23 May 2019 at 21:50:38 UTC, Alex wrote: I've used very small LUT's like a length of 5 and it didn't significantly change anything. Use a size that is 2^n, then mask the index and hopefully that will turn off bounds checks. E.g. If LUT size is 16, then index the lut with

Re: Performance of tables slower than built in?

2019-05-23 Thread Alex via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Thursday, 23 May 2019 at 15:20:22 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote: On 23.05.19 12:21, Alex wrote: On Wednesday, 22 May 2019 at 00:55:37 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Wednesday, 22 May 2019 at 00:22:09 UTC, JS wrote: I am trying to create some fast sin, sinc, and exponential routines to speed up some

Re: Why function does not work with delegate

2019-05-23 Thread Alex via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wednesday, 22 May 2019 at 23:54:47 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Wednesday, 22 May 2019 at 22:33:52 UTC, Alex wrote: auto x = (GdkEventButton* e, Widget w) ... X.addOnButtonPress(x); Why is x not a delegate? Because you didn't ask for one and it didn't have to be. Just add the

Linking a .h file

2019-05-23 Thread infinityplusb via Digitalmars-d-learn
I'm trying to use Dagon (https://github.com/gecko0307/dagon) for what I thought would be a simple enough project. Initially the one thing I needed to do was to install Nuklear and Freetype 2.8.1 `Under other OSes you have to install them manually` as I'm running on Ubuntu. I'm using dub and

Re: Performance of tables slower than built in?

2019-05-23 Thread Alex via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wednesday, 22 May 2019 at 08:25:58 UTC, Basile B. wrote: On Wednesday, 22 May 2019 at 00:22:09 UTC, JS wrote: I am trying to create some fast sin, sinc, and exponential routines to speed up some code by using tables... but it seems it's slower than the function itself?!? [...] Hi,

Re: Performance of tables slower than built in?

2019-05-23 Thread Alex via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wednesday, 22 May 2019 at 00:55:37 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Wednesday, 22 May 2019 at 00:22:09 UTC, JS wrote: I am trying to create some fast sin, sinc, and exponential routines to speed up some code by using tables... but it seems it's slower than the function itself?!? There's

Why GNU coreutils/dd is creating a dummy file more efficiently than D's For loop?

2019-05-23 Thread BoQsc via Digitalmars-d-learn
This code of D creates a dummy 47,6 MB text file filled with Nul characters in about 9 seconds import std.stdio, std.process; void main() { writeln("Creating a dummy file"); File file = File("test.txt", "w"); for (int i = 0; i < 5000; i++) {

Re: Why GNU coreutils/dd is creating a dummy file more efficiently than D's For loop?

2019-05-23 Thread Cym13 via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Thursday, 23 May 2019 at 09:09:05 UTC, BoQsc wrote: This code of D creates a dummy 47,6 MB text file filled with Nul characters in about 9 seconds import std.stdio, std.process; void main() { writeln("Creating a dummy file"); File file = File("test.txt", "w"); for (int