Re: Visual D 0.3.34 released - powered by a precise garbage collector

2012-10-13 Thread thedeemon
On Friday, 12 October 2012 at 17:37:09 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote: after struggling with memory issues for too long, the newest version of Visual D enjoys the benefits of a pretty precise garbage collector. Great news! I'm a happy thankful user of VisualD. I really like the fact that the new

Re: Visual D 0.3.34 released - powered by a precise garbage collector

2012-10-13 Thread Nicholas Londey
Chrome is flagging the download as 'This file appears malicious.' for me. Have you run into this? On Friday, 12 October 2012 at 17:37:09 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote: Hi, after struggling with memory issues for too long, the newest version of Visual D enjoys the benefits of a pretty precise ga

Re: D2 for Win64

2012-10-13 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2012-10-13 03:44, Walter Bright wrote: Is now in a semi-usable state. Problems remain: $(LI 80 bit reals are truncated to 64 bits when formatting.) $(LI Many math functions are not implemented.) $(LI No symbolic debug info is generated.) $(LI Cannot catch W

Re: Visual D 0.3.34 released - powered by a precise garbage collector

2012-10-13 Thread Rainer Schuetze
On 10/13/2012 10:31 AM, Nicholas Londey wrote: Chrome is flagging the download as 'This file appears malicious.' for me. Have you run into this? I have downloaded and installed Chrome, and it does not complain. But Windows 8 SmartScreen does, probably because the installer is not signed. Yo

Re: Visual D 0.3.34 released - powered by a precise garbage collector

2012-10-13 Thread Rainer Schuetze
On 10/13/2012 10:19 AM, thedeemon wrote: On Friday, 12 October 2012 at 17:37:09 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote: after struggling with memory issues for too long, the newest version of Visual D enjoys the benefits of a pretty precise garbage collector. Great news! I'm a happy thankful user of Vis

Re: Visual D 0.3.34 released - powered by a precise garbage collector

2012-10-13 Thread Lubos Pintes
Not in Firefox, downloaded yesterday. Dňa 13. 10. 2012 10:31 Nicholas Londey wrote / napísal(a): Chrome is flagging the download as 'This file appears malicious.' for me. Have you run into this? On Friday, 12 October 2012 at 17:37:09 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote: Hi, after struggling with memor

Re: Visual D 0.3.34 released - powered by a precise garbage collector

2012-10-13 Thread Rainer Schuetze
On 10/13/2012 2:37 PM, Rainer Schuetze wrote: My impression is that the branch on github (https://github.com/rainers/druntime/tree/precise_gc2) is pretty stable. I should add that you can expect running into linker problems because RTInfo for associative arrays is often not generated by dm

Mono-D v0.4.1.5 Fixes

2012-10-13 Thread alex
Hi everyone, Just released a new Mono-D version that features couple of bigger sort of fixes.. The download: http://mono-d.alexanderbothe.com/repo/MonoDevelop.D_0.4.1.5_MD3.0.4.7.mpack The changelog: http://mono-d.alexanderbothe.com/?p=634 The blog: http://mono-d.alexanderbothe.com The issu

Re: D2 for Win64

2012-10-13 Thread Paulo Pinto
On Saturday, 13 October 2012 at 01:45:11 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: Is now in a semi-usable state. Problems remain: $(LI 80 bit reals are truncated to 64 bits when formatting.) $(LI Many math functions are not implemented.) $(LI No symbolic debug info is generated.)

Re: D2 for Win64

2012-10-13 Thread Walter Bright
On 10/13/2012 3:00 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: > On 2012-10-13 03:44, Walter Bright wrote: >> Is now in a semi-usable state. Problems remain: >> >> $(LI Cannot catch Win64 structured exception handling exceptions.) > > Is this exceptions in general or is there some kind of DMD specific exce

Re: D2 for Win64

2012-10-13 Thread Jesse Phillips
On Saturday, 13 October 2012 at 01:45:11 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: Is now in a semi-usable state. Problems remain: $(LI 80 bit reals are truncated to 64 bits when formatting.) $(LI Many math functions are not implemented.) $(LI No symbolic debug info is generated.)

Re: Blog post: Demystifying Garbage Collectors

2012-10-13 Thread Era Scarecrow
On Friday, 12 October 2012 at 19:19:23 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 10/11/12 9:15 PM, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote: http://xtzgzorex.wordpress.com/2012/10/11/demystifying-garbage-collectors/ Essentially an explanation of garbage collection for the layman programmer. Though, it does assume s

Re: Mono-D v0.4.1.5 Fixes

2012-10-13 Thread F i L
On Saturday, 13 October 2012 at 13:17:52 UTC, alex wrote: Hi everyone, Just released a new Mono-D version that features couple of bigger sort of fixes.. The download: http://mono-d.alexanderbothe.com/repo/MonoDevelop.D_0.4.1.5_MD3.0.4.7.mpack The changelog: http://mono-d.alexanderbothe.com/?

Re: Visual D 0.3.34 released - powered by a precise garbage collector

2012-10-13 Thread Walter Bright
On 10/12/2012 10:37 AM, Rainer Schuetze wrote: > The Visual D installer can be downloaded from its website at > http://www.dsource.org/projects/visuald On github: https://github.com/rainers/visuald

Re: Article: Dispelling Common D Myths

2012-10-13 Thread torhu
On 10.10.2012 09:06, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2012-10-10 08:38, Nick Sabalausky wrote: Some stuff I thought needed to be said and shared: http://semitwist.com/articles/article/view/dispelling-common-d-myths Personally, I would have pointed out that there are some other useful modules in Tang

Re: Article: Dispelling Common D Myths

2012-10-13 Thread Era Scarecrow
On Sunday, 14 October 2012 at 03:24:16 UTC, torhu wrote: In my view, D2/Phobos2 is still playing catch-up to D1/Tango. The D1 compiler is less buggy, Tango is still better than Phobos2, library could well be better. I wouldn't recommend anyone to start a new project in D1. But I also feel t