Re: Creator of LLVM, Clang, and Swift Says To Not Write Security Critical Code In C/C++

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On Wednesday, 15 July 2015 at 07:22:36 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
I use the GCC extensions/compiler hints… I think many include 
those in their C++ usage since Clang also support them. I think 
D would be better off by incorporating the same feature set 
(with a nicer syntax).

The only thing I've found lacking in D compared to C++ is the 
extremely fragmented SIMD support.

Some compiler hints that gcc offers are provided as language 
features in D(function attributes,) and the others are offered as 
vendor specific features(LDC, GDC both offer the equivalent of 
__builtin_expect for example.)

GDC and LDC both respectively offer just as many tunables as 
their C++ counterparts, IMO. I'm not even sure if most people 
realize e.g, PGO works with D, or LTO, or the new LLVM/GCC 
sanitizers, etc.