newCTFE Status August 2017

[Stefan Koch via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 1 August 2017 at 21:27:32 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote:
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Hi Guys,

I've fixed a few ABI bugs and as a result my alternative to 
std.bitmanip.bitfields complies now.
I've also made an intrinsic for the concat operation.
Which causes ~= to be 6-10x faster when it's heavily used.

The huge space requirements for heavy ~= are not yet solved 
though.
To pass the unittests regardless which does ~= 4096 times on a 
moderately long string;
I've had to bump the ctfe heapSpace.
Therefore newCTFE will allocate 1GB at startup which causes it to 
die on 32bit targets.
This issue will be worked when _most_ of the ABI is finalized 
(i.e. when classes and unions are in)