Can D be Interpreted?
deadalnix
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Sun Jan 5 16:24:00 PST 2014
On Wednesday, 1 January 2014 at 22:44:31 UTC, David Nadlinger
wrote:
> On Wednesday, 1 January 2014 at 10:27:48 UTC, Ola Fosheim
> Grøstad wrote:
>> Why doesn't D support some kind of partial evaluation instead?
>> With llvm you get to JIT for free, seems to be an overall
>> simpler solution than having an interpreter in the compiler
>> (or equally complex, but more powerful)
>
> Not really. You'd probably still need a powerful constant
> folder/interpreter to avoid firing up the LLVM JIT for every
> single trivial CTFE invocation.
>
> David
That is still what SDC does :D
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