• bearophile (4/4) Jun 27 2011 My experience about this stuff is zero, but is this idea useful to debug...
• Don (6/12) Jun 28 2011 In practice, it does pretty much the same job as CyberShadow's dustmite
• Walter Bright (2/3) Jun 28 2011 Being in continuous use for 25 yeras has a lot to do with that :-)

bearophile <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> writes:

My experience about this stuff is zero, but is this idea useful to
debug/improve DMD too?

http://blog.ezyang.com/2011/06/debugging-compilers-with-optimization-fuel/

Bye,
bearophile

Don <nospam nospam.com> writes:

bearophile wrote:
 My experience about this stuff is zero, but is this idea useful to
debug/improve DMD too?
 
 http://blog.ezyang.com/2011/06/debugging-compilers-with-optimization-fuel/
 
 Bye,
 bearophile

In practice, it does pretty much the same job as CyberShadow's dustmite 
program, which is considerably more general.
https://github.com/CyberShadow/DustMite

Historically, only about two bugs per year have been found in DMD's 
optimizer, compared to >1000 bugs/year in the front end.

Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:

On 6/28/2011 1:33 AM, Don wrote:
 Historically, only about two bugs per year have been found in DMD's optimizer,

Being in continuous use for 25 yeras has a lot to do with that :-)