• vtp (2/2) Jan 04 2007 Now that 1.00 is out. When can we expect the next release? And what feat...
• janderson (5/8) Jan 04 2007 Perhaps 1.00 should be stabilized? And then maybe some attention to
• Craig Black (11/21) Jan 04 2007 Yes. Stabilization should be top priority since there seem to still be ...
• Sean Kelly (8/16) Jan 04 2007 An easy fix that should help is to key on element size. This would at

vtp <vanh dslextreme.com> writes:

Now that 1.00 is out. When can we expect the next release? And what features
would be in? Concurrency support? GUI support? Network support?  etc.. Would be
nice to know what to expect.

vtp

janderson <askme me.com> writes:

vtp wrote:
 Now that 1.00 is out. When can we expect the next release? And what features
would be in? Concurrency support? GUI support? Network support?  etc.. Would be
nice to know what to expect.
 
 vtp


Perhaps 1.00 should be stabilized?  And then maybe some attention to 
performance.  ie The boring house cleaning jobs.  This would go a long 
way towards retaining D users.

-Joel

"Craig Black" <cblack ara.com> writes:

Yes.  Stabilization should be top priority since there seem to still be many 
outstanding bugs.

However, performance is a big area that isn't necessarily a "boring house 
cleaning" exercise.  For example, the most significant improvement to 
performance IMO would be to make GC precise.  This would require new 
reflection features in the compiler as it would have to know which areas of 
memory are pointers and which are not.  However, I think you may be refering 
to performance enhancements to the backend, which would also be welcome.

-Craig

"janderson" <askme me.com> wrote in message 
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 vtp wrote:
 Now that 1.00 is out. When can we expect the next release? And what 
 features would be in? Concurrency support? GUI support? Network support? 
 etc.. Would be nice to know what to expect.

 vtp


 Perhaps 1.00 should be stabilized?  And then maybe some attention to 
 performance.  ie The boring house cleaning jobs.  This would go a long way 
 towards retaining D users.

 -Joel 

Sean Kelly <sean f4.ca> writes:

Craig Black wrote:
 Yes.  Stabilization should be top priority since there seem to still be many 
 outstanding bugs.
 
 However, performance is a big area that isn't necessarily a "boring house 
 cleaning" exercise.  For example, the most significant improvement to 
 performance IMO would be to make GC precise.  This would require new 
 reflection features in the compiler as it would have to know which areas of 
 memory are pointers and which are not.

An easy fix that should help is to key on element size.  This would at 
least prevent blocks containing elements less than pointer size from 
being scanned (most notably char strings).  In fact, Tango already has 
this behavior by default.  If I had more free time I'd submit a patch to 
Walter for Phobos--it really isn't a tremendously difficult change aside 
from sorting out how the GC interface should be modified to support it.


Sean