[OT] my 10 minute talk about template-slowness

[Stefan Koch via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 21 September 2016 at 16:11:04 UTC, WebFreak001 
wrote:
>
> Interesting talk. Templates are indeed slow but the reason why 
> I use them over CTFE functions (or why i leave out ctfe in 
> general and just use functions) is that they don't require 20 
> GB of RAM for some medium-simple tasks (liked Pegged)

That can and is being fixed.
Templates can only be fixed partially and I am not even sure of 
that.

> Templates could be made faster but I don't really like losing a 
> feature or a possibility for it. imo D is very friendly and 
> easy to learn for newcomers, if a feature is slowing down 
> things a lot but making it a bit easier to learn/use, I would 
> prefer to keep that feature.

I am not suggesting to remove templates.
I just want to raise awareness that they have a rather high cost.
CTFE performance is fixable. Template performance might not.