Chat with Stefan Koch about CTFE reimplementation

Joakim via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Mon May 23 11:47:38 PDT 2016


On Monday, 23 May 2016 at 16:32:30 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
> On Monday, 23 May 2016 at 15:57:42 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote:
>> Hello!
>>
>> [...]
>
> Call me party pooper or something but this whole things seems 
> to get way out of control.
>
> In order to asses the quality of the new design, one need to 
> compare it to a baseline (aka the existing design) or one is 
> basically going blind and unlikely to end up anywhere.
>
> There are obvious low hanging fruits in the existing design. 
> For instance using a region allocator and blast it all after a 
> CTFE run. It is like we have a car with square wheels, and you 
> guys a reinventing a whole new car without even trying to maybe 
> put round wheel on the existing one and see how it goes.
>
> Overall, that means you are embarking in an expensive project, 
> with 0 visibility on the actual value provided.

The maintainer of his own D frontend saying, "Let's not reinvent 
the car?" ;)

You make a valid point, but part of the fun of open source is 
reinventing the wheel.  Since that's what Stefan wants to do, 
let's hope he can get it done.


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