Hi,

there is a new release of Visual D available at

http://rainers.github.io/visuald/visuald/StartPage.html

This time there is no major new feature to announce, but quite a few improvements to

* VS 2015 support
* building with LDC
* configuration dialogs
* C++ to D conversion wizard

See http://rainers.github.io/visuald/visuald/VersionHistory.html for the complete list of changes and the version history.

Visual D is a Visual Studio extension that adds D language support to VS2005-2015. It is written in D, its source code can be found on github: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/visuald.

Rainer

On Saturday, 28 November 2015 at 09:14:03 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
> Hi,
>
> there is a new release of Visual D available at
>
> http://rainers.github.io/visuald/visuald/StartPage.html
>
> This time there is no major new feature to announce, but quite a few improvements to
>
> * VS 2015 support
> * building with LDC
> * configuration dialogs
> * C++ to D conversion wizard
>
> See http://rainers.github.io/visuald/visuald/VersionHistory.html for the complete list of changes and the version history.
>
> Visual D is a Visual Studio extension that adds D language support to VS2005-2015. It is written in D, its source code can be found on github: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/visuald.
>
> Rainer

Thanks, works great. Only some minor issues:
Some of the GUI optimization options doesn't propagate correctly to ldc.

inline: no effect
boundscheck: no effect
singleobj: no gui option available and without it, the performance of my app is abysmal, that's how I noticed these issues.
Optimization levels: only one level is exposed in the GUI

Fortunately the workaround is easy, adding this to "additional options":
-O5 -inline -boundscheck=off -singleobj

Daniel N

On 28.11.2015 10:59, Daniel N wrote:
>
> Thanks, works great. Only some minor issues:
> Some of the GUI optimization options doesn't propagate correctly to ldc.
>
> inline: no effect

According to the LDC help screen, inlining is enabled with -O2 or higher. Not sure, if this should be undone if the inline option is not checked.

> boundscheck: no effect

Will fix, I have to add the 3-way bounds check option for dmd anyway.

> singleobj: no gui option available and without it, the performance of my
> app is abysmal, that's how I noticed these issues.

I suspect there is no cross-module inlining without this option. Should match the inverse of "Multiple Object Files", though that does something slightly different with dmd.

> Optimization levels: only one level is exposed in the GUI

Unfortunately, the optimization options don't match between compilers, so I guess it needs to be customized for each compiler.

>
> Fortunately the workaround is easy, adding this to "additional options":
> -O5 -inline -boundscheck=off -singleobj
>
> Daniel N
>