Battle-plan for CTFE

[Rory McGuire via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 8:17 AM, Stefam Koch via Digitalmars-d-announce <
digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com> wrote:

> 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.
>>
>
So true of computer programming. Particularly if the documentation for the
API is awol.


>
>> 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.
>
>
Cool, thanks for the feedback.
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