Battle-plan for CTFE

[Daniel Murphy via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 19/05/2016 3:50 AM, Stefan Koch wrote:
> I am currently designing an IR to feed into the CTFE Evaluator.
> I am aware that this could potentially make it harder to get things
> merged since DMD already has the glue-layer.
>

It's always more difficult to justify merging more complexity.  But if 
you can present a working and superior solution the specific 
implementation is less important.  It is still important that it matches 
the existing style of the compiler, especially with respect to adding 
dependencies.

Also be aware that even with agreement on the eventual goal, it is still 
very slow to get big changes approved.  eg ddmd took more than twice as 
long as it should have.  This is why I suggested looking for incremental 
improvements, so you can overlap getting earlier things merged and 
developing later parts.  I would be on the lookout for things that can 
be justified on their own (untangling AssignExp :) ) and try to push 
those through first.