Mid level IR

[Dmitry Olshansky via Digitalmars-d]

On 14-Aug-2015 20:00, rsw0x wrote:
> On Friday, 14 August 2015 at 16:13:07 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote:
>> Rust is getting a mid level IR for speeding up compilation.
>>
>> http://blog.rust-lang.org/2015/08/14/Next-year.html
>
>> There are some really neat things you can do in Rust today – if you’re
>> willing to use the Nightly channel. For example, the regex crate comes
>> with macros that, at compile time, turn regular expressions directly
>> into machine code to match them.
>
> Eating D's lunch?

Or whatever is left of it. Truth be told re2c was there some ~15 years 
before for those who can stand adding an external code generator to the 
build script.

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Dmitry Olshansky