The Strange Loop conference

[Sean Kelly]

On Sep 21, 2011, at 12:59 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

> On 9/21/11 12:59 PM, bearophile wrote:
>> Andrei Alexandrescu:
>> 
>>> which has enjoyed moderate audience and success. I uploaded the
>>> slides at http://erdani.com/d/generic-programming-galore.pdf and
>>> the video may be available soon.
>> 
>> In future talks I suggest to show some downsides too, like explaining
>> how much memory uses the D RE engine, how hard are to write, read,
>> modify and debug text-based mixins like the bitfields, etc.
> 
> I did mention the downsides in the talk: memory consumption during CTFE and the compiler's inability to explain why a template didn't match.

If DMD cleaned up after itself, the memory consumption issue would be far less significant though.  Perhaps DMD could be fixed up to the point where GC could be enabled?  I recall the code being there, but that there were issues with turning it on.