Why I'm Excited about D

Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Mon Apr 6 18:27:58 PDT 2015


On 7/04/2015 1:02 p.m., Jens Bauer wrote:
> On Tuesday, 7 April 2015 at 00:57:09 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote:
>> CTFE could have some pretty awesome applications for embedded I
>> suspect. After all, you can pregenerate data structures ext. For
>> faster execution.
>
> Yes, they're particularly useful for embedded devices.
> I've often used tables in assembly language in this regard.
> -Things that seem to be impossible, because the normal approach is to
> "write optimized code" suddenly becomes possible, when optimizing
> (rearranging) the data to fit the hardware.
>
>> I don't think anybody has toyed with this yet.
>
> With D, advanced table-generation will become much easier.
> I bet I'm one of those people, who will have a lot of fun using this
> feature. ;)

I'm watching your progress closely. I think we are ready to get D 
properly on micro controllers and you are really testing, exploring it even.

I would be very surprised in the next year or so, if you don't make 
atleast one breakthrough!


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