CTFE and DI: The Crossroads of D

[Adam Wilson]

On Wed, 09 May 2012 12:57:46 -0700, Adam D. Ruppe  
<destructionator at gmail.com> wrote:

> The real WTF is we use .di files for druntime in the
> first place. It is performance sensitive and open source.
>
> We should be using the actual sources for inlining, ctfe,
> etc. anyway.
>
> Let's not torpedo the .di patch's value for just phobos.

Except that there is a distinct need for the DRuntime as a shared library.  
Particularly as end-user software starts relying on multiple shared  
libraries. Currently, things just explode when you try to use multiple  
libraries of software that link to different versions of the DRT, a shared  
lib for DRT would pretty much solve that. Or at least make a solution  
possible, but the *only* way to make a DRT shared lib work is DI files  
that don't contain implementation.

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Adam Wilson
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