On 5/31/2014 5:02 PM, "Nordlöw" wrote:
Could you elaborate a bit on what data flow optimizations mean?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data-flow_analysis
What other kinds of optimizations will become possible?
Escape analysis, for one. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_analysis
Is this something that other langs/compilers offer?
All modern compilers use DFA in the optimizer pass (including dmd), but that is not set up to provide information back to the front end.