Compiling to Heap for CTFE
Gregor Richards
Richards at codu.org
Mon Dec 17 23:48:09 PST 2007
Craig Black wrote:
> Currently, CTFE only supports a subset of the language, and it relies on
> the compiler acting as an interpreter, which is slow. It just occured
> to me that if we could compile code to the heap, there would be no need
> for a CTFE interpreter. CTFE code could be compiled to the heap and
> executed at full speed. Further, all the features of D would be
> available at compile time.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> -Craig
== death to cross-compilation.
- Gregor Richards
PS: Well, not necessarily, but it certainly would make things difficult.
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