Battle-plan for CTFE

Stefam Koch via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
Sun Oct 23 23:17:42 PDT 2016


On Monday, 24 October 2016 at 05:57:42 UTC, Stefam Koch wrote:
> On Sunday, 16 October 2016 at 00:27:50 UTC, Uplink_Coder wrote:
>>
>> 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 :)
>
> Hey Guys,
>
> I am still dealing with the many bugs that have surfaced.
> It is really crazy how something so broken could have worked 
> that well.
>
> Originally I planned adding a ton of features, but that can 
> only happen If the fundamental issues are fixed.

However at the D Meetup in Berlin, I have gotten some positive 
feedback concerning my ByteCode-Layer.
Once the bugs are fixed and the edges are smoothed over I can see 
finding it's way into other parts of the compiler.



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