• Sean L. Palmer (5/5) Nov 12 2001 Walter, is there anything at all that can be done about the problem of
• Walter (5/9) Nov 12 2001 just

"Sean L. Palmer" <spalmer iname.com> writes:

Walter, is there anything at all that can be done about the problem of
missed optimization opportunities due to the issue of potential aliasing?
Should D assume aliasing is happening, as C does?  Or can the compiler just
figure out there's no possiblity of aliasing for a given block of code?

Sean

"Walter" <walter digitalmars.com> writes:

"Sean L. Palmer" <spalmer iname.com> wrote in message
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 Walter, is there anything at all that can be done about the problem of
 missed optimization opportunities due to the issue of potential aliasing?
 Should D assume aliasing is happening, as C does?  Or can the compiler

just
 figure out there's no possiblity of aliasing for a given block of code?

Aliasing will be explicitly disallowed in array operations, which will
enable optimizers to use parallel coding techniques.