Battle-plan for CTFE

Dmitry Olshansky via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
Sun Oct 16 03:58:57 PDT 2016


On 10/16/16 2:27 AM, Uplink_Coder wrote:
> On Wednesday, 5 October 2016 at 08:34:06 UTC, Rory McGuire wrote:
>>
>> No worries, I've been watching this space for over a decade. I really
>> believe you are working on one of the most important parts of IT for
>> the next decade. I am planning/making a library that uses CTFE
>> extensively and feel much more confident about it purely because of
>> your work on getting CTFE performance to be a non-issue.
>>
>> R
>
> Little update here:
> The LLVM backend is almost on feature parity.
> Meaning that that soon the new CTFE engine is a real jit.
> In the process I discoverd quite a few horrible bugs and inconsistency
> in the API.
> I am quite astonished that it ever ran before :)
>

That LLVM thing is surely nice to have but I highly doubt it will be 
allowed as dependency for DMD.

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Dmitry Olshansky


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