On 9/12/2013 3:16 PM, bearophile wrote:
Jonathan M Davis:
I think that if this sort of thing is to be considered, it needs to be
considered after all of the far more major issues have been resolved.
In general this a well know fallacious point of view. I D there are large issues
open since several years. If you apply your idea to this situation along the
years, then you don't improve the compiler much
In most jobs you use pipelining: you don't wait for the largest jobs to finish
before doing small jobs. You try to cram as many jobs in parallel as possible,
filling all the empty cracks, to increase throughput. This is why people are
improving small things in dmd even if large compiler issues are still present.
Except that this is a large job, with a high likelihood of causing other
unanticipated issues.
