Precise GC

Manu turkeyman at gmail.com
Sun Apr 8 02:42:45 PDT 2012


On 8 April 2012 11:56, Timon Gehr <timon.gehr at gmx.ch> wrote:

> On 04/08/2012 10:45 AM, Timon Gehr wrote:
>
>> That actually sounds like a pretty awesome idea.
>>
>
> Make sure that the compiler does not actually rely on the fact that the
> template generates a function. The design should include the possibility of
> just generating tables. It all should be completely transparent to the
> compiler, if that is possible.
>

This sounds important to me. If it is also possible to do the work with
generated tables, and not calling thousands of indirect functions in
someone's implementation, it would be nice to reserve that possibility.
Indirect function calls in hot loops make me very nervous for non-x86
machines.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.puremagic.com/pipermail/digitalmars-d/attachments/20120408/abb8f4ab/attachment.html>


More information about the Digitalmars-d mailing list