On Monday, 21 May 2018 at 19:44:17 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
Walter wants to use assertions to then have the compiler make
assumptions about the code and optimized based on it, but he
hasn't implemented anything like that, and there are a number
of arguments about why it's a very bad idea -
On Monday, May 21, 2018 12:44:21 Malte via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
> I was interested by asserts and how the compiler uses them to
> optimize the code. So I looked at the compiler explorer to see
> how and found it, it doesn't.
>
> What I tried to do is turn a std.conv.to!ulong(byte) to a
I was interested by asserts and how the compiler uses them to
optimize the code. So I looked at the compiler explorer to see
how and found it, it doesn't.
What I tried to do is turn a std.conv.to!ulong(byte) to a simple
cast with the help of assertions.
https://godbolt.org/g/4uckWU
If there
