Druntime merged into dmd repo

RazvanN razvan.nitu1305 at gmail.com
Fri Jul 15 06:49:28 UTC 2022


On Friday, 15 July 2022 at 05:46:53 UTC, StarCanopy wrote:
> On Tuesday, 12 July 2022 at 07:12:25 UTC, RazvanN wrote:
>> This is not something a user is going to be affected by. But 
>> it will make it much easier for the compiler/druntime devs to 
>> do work. DMD and druntime are very strictly coupled and 
>> sometimes modifying one requires changes in the other. That 
>> lead to situations where it was practically impossible to 
>> integrate changes without temporarily breaking the CI. 
>> Moreover, it was a pain to bisect bugs that were affected by 
>> both druntime/dmd changes.
>
> Thank you for the elucidation!
> I might be wrong, but some time ago, there was talk of 
> deprecating druntime or something to that effect, and I 
> wondering whether this was step in that direction, but it 
> appears that is not the case.

No, there is no talk about deprecating druntime. However, work is 
being done
to templatize druntime as much as possible so that it becomes a 
pay-as-you-go
library.


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