Compile time code paths

David Gileadi foo at bar.com
Mon Aug 10 07:36:45 PDT 2009


Daniel Keep wrote:
> Jeremie Pelletier wrote:
>> If a function has both an asm and D implementations inside its body, and the D version can be executed at compile time, but the asm one is much faster at runtime. Is it possible to have the compiler use the D code path at compile time (ie to fill in enums and whatnot), and have the asm version available at runtime.
> 
> Not that I know of.  There's no way to switch based on run time/compile
> time.  This was going to be solved, at least in part, using static
> arguments, but that got dropped.
> 
> As it stands, you just have to use a suffix or prefix or something to
> distinguish CTFE methods from runtime methods.

Is this a case for version(CompileTime){}?



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