On Saturday, 7 July 2018 at 13:26:10 UTC, Guillaume Piolat wrote:
On Friday, 6 July 2018 at 23:08:27 UTC, Random D user wrote:
Especially, since D doesn't even attempt any
auto-vectorization (poor results and difficult to implement)
and manual loops are quite tedious to write (even std.simd
fa
TL;DR
Would want to run your code 8x - 32x faster? SPMD (Single Program
Multiple Data) on SIMD (Single Instruction Multiple Data) might
be the answer you're looking for.
It works by running multiple iterations/instances of your loop at
once on SIMD and the compiler could do that automatically f
On Friday, 5 January 2018 at 03:28:10 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 1/4/2018 2:34 AM, Mike Franklin wrote:
Walter seems to pop in daily, and occasionally reviews PRs,
and his PRs of late are mostly just refactorings rather than
fixing difficult bugs.
There's a lot of technical debt I've been tr
On Friday, 20 October 2017 at 02:20:31 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
On Friday, 20 October 2017 at 00:26:19 UTC, bauss wrote:
return foo ?? null; would be so much easier.
return getOr(foo, null);
I guess with UFCS you could get:
return foo.PP(null); // vs.
return foo ?? null;
:D
On Friday, 13 October 2017 at 13:14:39 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer
wrote:
I don't know what the expectations of a Windows user are.
In my exprience 80% of mainly Windows devs (in professional
environment) use Visual Studio + plugins (e.g. Visual
Assist/Dpack etc.). Most of the remaining 20% use
On Friday, 6 October 2017 at 18:09:58 UTC, Ali wrote:
On Friday, 6 October 2017 at 17:27:03 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 05:14:51PM +, Rion via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
https://www.quora.com/What-is-your-review-of-D-programming-language
It seems that D still has the GC being
On Saturday, 22 July 2017 at 10:44:04 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
1. Fix it so it matches C, as has been generally promised.
Fixing it will break existing code such as:
If D was my language I'd fix it, since it's a bug.
D's fluidity and effortlessness comes from a lot of small
compounding conve
On Saturday, 8 July 2017 at 12:18:38 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
On 7/8/17 7:07 AM, bachmeier wrote:
On Saturday, 8 July 2017 at 10:15:39 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
Having an @noreturn attribute will take care of that:
@noreturn void ThisFunctionExits();
Why should this be an attribut
On Friday, 30 June 2017 at 06:14:41 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
On 6/29/2017 10:19 PM, Random D user wrote:
2. Composable custom memory block GC. The ability to mallocate
128MB
memory block and create a new GC instance to manage that
block. It would
only need to scan that 128MB block and not w
I just got curious, after reading the GC analysis blog post. What
kind of features people generally would want for the GC (in the
distant murky future of 1999)?
Here's some of my nice to haves:
1. Thread local GCs. D is by default thread local, so it kind of
would make sense and goodbye stop
On Tuesday, 27 June 2017 at 18:42:45 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev
wrote:
On Tuesday, 27 June 2017 at 18:41:00 UTC, Random D user wrote:
What ever you do, please don't use extreme high intensity
colors like red(255,0,0), green (0,255,0) or blue (0,0,255).
That's up to the terminal (or your configura
On Monday, 26 June 2017 at 22:17:00 UTC, Moritz Maxeiner wrote:
On Monday, 26 June 2017 at 18:47:18 UTC, Random D user wrote:
Anyway, I think we could just have a compile time switch for
defaults.
Imagine having n libraries with pairwise different required
defaults used in your application. S
On Tuesday, 27 June 2017 at 14:32:28 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev
wrote:
With 2.075's release near, now would be a good time to decide
on a nice color palette that looks fine on most terminals. So,
please vote:
What ever you do, please don't use extreme high intensity colors
like red(255,0,0), gre
On Monday, 26 June 2017 at 14:17:26 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
1) Add the opposite attributes: `impure`, `throws`, `@gc`, etc.
2) Add the module version thing that changes defaults on request
3) imagine more potential going forward
I dislike doubling the keywords by having a 'not' case for each.
On Sunday, 14 May 2017 at 15:39:12 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 5/12/2017 9:17 AM, Mike Parker wrote:
The first stage of the formal review for DIP 1003 [1], "Remove
body as a
Keyword", is now underway.
A combination of Options 1 and 2:
1. Introduce 'function' as an alternative to 'body'.
H
On Friday, 21 April 2017 at 22:11:19 UTC, Namespace wrote:
nuDist - in D you can program as free as you want. ;)
void main()
body
{
asm
{
naked;
}
}
On Wednesday, 1 February 2017 at 23:49:29 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
We would love to change the defaults, but unfortunately that
boat has already sailed a long time ago.
What if d had a -safe-defaults switch? It should be ok, since
safe is stricter than unsafe right?
This way old/existing code
On Thursday, 6 October 2016 at 14:53:52 UTC, Manu wrote:
I've done another pass incorporating prior feedback, mostly
focusing on documentation.
Just a quick minor comment on:
A8 RGB!("a",ubyte,false,0) 8 bit alpha-only color type.
-->
Reads like, "False what ???". Also "What is 0 ???".
-->
Ho
On Tuesday, 13 September 2016 at 02:00:44 UTC, Manu wrote:
On 13 September 2016 at 07:00, Marco Leise via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
Am Tue, 13 Sep 2016 00:37:22 +1000
schrieb Manu via Digitalmars-d :
Alright, but hybrid gamma is really not something that can be
googled. Or rather I end up at Toyota
On Tuesday, 13 September 2016 at 01:05:56 UTC, Manu wrote:
Can you describe what you perceive to be hard?
Well, I just skimmed through the docs and I didn't look at the
code, so that sense it was an "honest" view for phobos proposal.
Also I was trying to convey that based on the docs it "l
On Monday, 12 September 2016 at 04:14:27 UTC, Manu wrote:
I think I'm about as happy with my colour lib as I'm going to
be. It really needs reviews.
- Manu
Hi. I'm just a random forum lurker, but here's my feedback.
It needs more docs/examples for the basic usage cases (i.e. how
to skip doc
On Friday, 15 January 2016 at 05:56:37 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev
wrote:
- A specific list of things that can be improved
I too like the current soft dark theme of the forum (and website).
Would it be possible to have optional dark theme in the forum
settings?
I wish the main website would hav
On Monday, 22 June 2015 at 19:09:40 UTC, weaselcat wrote:
I never seem to use them for anything, has anyone else done
anything interesting with them?
What a cool thread.
This is very valuable info for new(ish) d users.
It's often the case for language features that they are just
branded cool.
I've used D's GC with DDMD. It works*, but you're trading
better memory usage for worse allocation speed. It's quite
possible we could add a switch to ddmd to enable the GC.
As a random d-user (who cares about perf/speed and just happened
to read this) a switch sounds VERY good to me. I don'
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