Battle-plan for CTFE

Stefan Koch via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
Tue May 10 04:31:33 PDT 2016


On Tuesday, 10 May 2016 at 07:44:54 UTC, Rory McGuire wrote:
> On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 8:45 AM, Jacob Carlborg via 
> Digitalmars-d-announce <digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com> 
> wrote:
>>
>> I was listening to a discussion Don and Daniel had about the 
>> current implementation of CTFE. They talked about using a byte 
>> code interpreter. Even implementing a really crappy byte code 
>> interpreter would be a huge improvement.
>>
>> --
>> /Jacob Carlborg
>
> Does anyone know whether it would be worth while keeping the 
> LLVM JIT in mind when writing this new CTFE engine?

Yes I do know the llvm jit, it is slow as a three legged dog.

But I do plan for a way of plugging it in. This is not a main 
priority however.



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