On Fri, 02 Dec 2011 16:46:19 +0100, Xinok <xi...@live.com> wrote:
Reading through the 'Java > Scala' thread, I've realized there are some
benefits to dynamic code generation vs statically compiled code. Things
like unrolling loops, devirtualizing functions, etc.
So it made me wonder, could D benefit from such technology, not from a
feature standpoint, but strictly optimization? I'm not familiar with the
topic, but I imagine there could be a few situations that would benefit
in terms of performance, as long as it doesn't affect interoperability.
- CTFE
- things typically done using whole program optimization
- flexible runtime plugins
- some loop unrolling but the performance win stagnates with the
latest generation X86 CPUs due to the micro op decoding cache
