Re: [Phoronix] Merging In The GNU D Language Compiler To GCC

2011-10-07 Thread Steve Teale
Are you saying that GDC is way faster? But I take your point. Steve

Re: [Phoronix] Merging In The GNU D Language Compiler To GCC

2011-10-07 Thread Trass3r
Am 07.10.2011, 13:28 Uhr, schrieb Steve Teale steve.te...@britseyeview.com: Are you saying that GDC is way faster? Yep. Especially for floating point calculations. Worst-case scenario for dmd: http://www.mail-archive.com/digitalmars-d@puremagic.com/msg61860.html (be sure to read through

Re: [Phoronix] Merging In The GNU D Language Compiler To GCC

2011-10-06 Thread Leandro Lucarella
Andrej Mitrovic, el 6 de octubre a las 00:34 me escribiste: Maybe if this was posted on Reddit it would get some vocal support and give the GNU guys reassurance that D is a sought-after language. Anyway this is great news! Congrats to Iain Buclaw and anyone else who helped. Great news

Re: [Phoronix] Merging In The GNU D Language Compiler To GCC

2011-10-06 Thread Steve Teale
Iain, You've made a cross for yourself there! If you need help with grunt tasks - like a broken piece of D code with a decent description of the problem, or even grunter, I might be able to help. As you know, I've been in those muddy waters before with nobody to even consult. With a guru like

Re: [Phoronix] Merging In The GNU D Language Compiler To GCC

2011-10-06 Thread Trass3r
Just as a matter of interest, how do you rate GDC 2.055 for speed alongside the Linux DMD. Of course it is way faster. You should compare with gcc instead.

Re: [Phoronix] Merging In The GNU D Language Compiler To GCC

2011-10-05 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2011-10-05 05:50, Iain Buclaw wrote: My worst kept secret is out. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_itempx=OTk2NA This is great news. -- /Jacob Carlborg

Re: [Phoronix] Merging In The GNU D Language Compiler To GCC

2011-10-05 Thread dsimcha
On 10/4/2011 11:50 PM, Iain Buclaw wrote: My worst kept secret is out. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_itempx=OTk2NA Awesome! Two things, though: 1. When will this actually happen? Is GCC 4.7 going to have GDC in it? 2. How will the impedance mismatch between DMD Front End's

Re: [Phoronix] Merging In The GNU D Language Compiler To GCC

2011-10-05 Thread Robert McGinley
Why not just write a redirect rule from the old D pages to the new ones? On Oct 4, 2011, at 11:55 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote: On Wednesday, October 05, 2011 03:50:35 Iain Buclaw wrote: My worst kept secret is out. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_itempx=OTk2NA *Sigh* They gave

Re: [Phoronix] Merging In The GNU D Language Compiler To GCC

2011-10-05 Thread Nick Sabalausky
dsimcha dsim...@yahoo.com wrote in message news:j6hkec$7lb$1...@digitalmars.com... 2. How will the impedance mismatch between DMD Front End's fast release cycle and GCC's slower release cycle be handled? I'm definitely not going to use the official version of GDC packaged with my Linux

Re: [Phoronix] Merging In The GNU D Language Compiler To GCC

2011-10-05 Thread Andrej Mitrovic
Maybe if this was posted on Reddit it would get some vocal support and give the GNU guys reassurance that D is a sought-after language. Anyway this is great news! Congrats to Iain Buclaw and anyone else who helped.

[Phoronix] Merging In The GNU D Language Compiler To GCC

2011-10-04 Thread Iain Buclaw
My worst kept secret is out. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_itempx=OTk2NA

Re: [Phoronix] Merging In The GNU D Language Compiler To GCC

2011-10-04 Thread Andrew Wiley
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 10:50 PM, Iain Buclaw ibuc...@ubuntu.com wrote: My worst kept secret is out. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_itempx=OTk2NA :D x 1000

Re: [Phoronix] Merging In The GNU D Language Compiler To GCC

2011-10-04 Thread Jonathan M Davis
On Wednesday, October 05, 2011 03:50:35 Iain Buclaw wrote: My worst kept secret is out. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_itempx=OTk2NA *Sigh* They gave the link to the old site rather than the d-programming- language.org, and since www.digitialmars.com only redirects on the main

Re: [Phoronix] Merging In The GNU D Language Compiler To GCC

2011-10-04 Thread Caligo
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 10:55 PM, Jonathan M Davis jmdavisp...@gmx.comwrote: On Wednesday, October 05, 2011 03:50:35 Iain Buclaw wrote: My worst kept secret is out. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_itempx=OTk2NA *Sigh* They gave the link to the old site rather than the