Idea for a new tool

[Stefan Koch via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 14 October 2016 at 18:02:24 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> On 10/14/16 12:38 PM, Stefan Koch wrote:
>> On Friday, 14 October 2016 at 13:13:16 UTC, Andrei 
>> Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5051 -- Andrei
>>
>> I have been working on this.
>> What this amounts to is an AST-writeout using the HdrGen.
>> This will affect the code in so far as it will be lowerd my 
>> the dmd
>> frontend.
>>
>> I have hit problems with massive template recursion.
>> I am working on ways to fix it.
>> (with a __symbol pseudo type which allows to turn recursion 
>> into
>> iteration, and removes the significant template-instanciation 
>> overhead)
>
> This is awesome! Do you think you could coordinate with Martin 
> and one of the new students to divide effort on that? Would be 
> great if you stayed focused on CTFE jitting. Thanks! -- Andrei

I can certainly give pointers to anyone who wishes to take this 
issue.