[swift-evolution] For-loop revisited

[Ted F.A. van Gaalen]

Hi Goffredo,
sorry, I don’t understand you msg very well,
i now assume you state that compilers cannot be improved beyond practical limits?
TedvG
> On 09.03.2016, at 14:25, Goffredo Marocchi <panajev at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Sometimes programmers directives and runtime knowledge are essential though and the compilers should be optimised but not held to a practically impossible standards. Beside not letting their best people having the best manufacturing process (as well as a nice dose of politics), there is a reason why architectures like IA-64 (which still intrigue me :)) had competitive problems against archs which trusted runtime decisions a lot more.
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On 9 Mar 2016, at 12:21, Taras Zakharko via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> On 09 Mar 2016, at 00:01, Ted F.A. van Gaalen via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> However, in the real world, especially when working with technical 
>>> and scientific data and for instance in time critical applications 
>>> like 3D presentations fast iterations become a necessity.
>> 
>> There is no reason why collection-based iteration can’t be as fast as a classical C for loop. The compiler should be able to optimise all the overhead away. , even unroll shorter loops. Maybe it doesn’t do it yet. I’d rather see resources invested into improving the compiler to inline/unroll code better where appropriate rather then introducing additional syntax to support a marginal use case. 
>> 
>> — Taras
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