On Sunday, 21 February 2016 at 16:20:30 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
On Sunday, 21 February 2016 at 14:32:15 UTC, dextorious wrote:
I had heard while reading up on the language that in D
explicit loops are generally frowned upon and not necessary
for the usual performance reasons.
First, a minor point, the D community is usually pretty careful
not to frown on a particular coding style (unlike some
communities) so if you are comfortable writing loops and it
gives you the fastest code, you should do so.
On the performance issue, you can see this related post about
performance with reduce:
http://forum.dlang.org/post/mailman.4829.1434623275.7663.digitalmar...@puremagic.com
This was Walter's response:
http://forum.dlang.org/post/mlvb40$1tdf$1...@digitalmars.com
And this shows that LDC flat out does a better job of
optimization in this case:
http://forum.dlang.org/post/mailman.4899.1434779705.7663.digitalmar...@puremagic.com
I can't agree with that. Between `for` and `foreach` you should
choose one that is more readable/understandable for particular
situation. It's compiler's task to optimize such small things.
