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 increased the performance by 47% for one specific benchmark, which should bring it into the same ballpark as GDC. See https://github.com/abulmo/amoeba/pull/2 for more details.
PGO might still give the latter a bit of an edge, though, as LDC's implementation is still experimental and there is a lot of unused potential for making use of the profile data in LLVM's optimiser.
— David
