If I had my way

[Robert Clipsham]

On 12/12/2011 03:58, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 12/11/2011 10:34 AM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>> In my experience programming embedded systems in highly constrained
>> environments
>> usually means assembly or at most a C compiler using lots
>> of compiler specific extensions for the target environment.
>>
>> I fail to see how D without GC could be a better tool in such
>> enviroments.
>
> For a system with a tiny amount of memory, D probably is the wrong tool.
> My suggestion would be:
>
> 0..64K assembler
> 64K..1M C

enum there = areALotOfCoolThingsInDThatDontNeedGC();

It'd be nice if D was an option here too.

> 1M+ D
>
> The larger your program is, the more D starts to pull ahead.


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Robert
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