Replacing C's memcpy with a D implementation

[Mike Franklin]

On Monday, 11 June 2018 at 10:38:30 UTC, Mike Franklin wrote:
> On Monday, 11 June 2018 at 10:07:39 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>
>>> I think there might also be optimization opportunities using 
>>> templates, metaprogramming, and type introspection, that are 
>>> not currently possible with the current design.
>>
>> Just making it a template doesn't automatically enable any of 
>> this.
>
> I think it does, because I can then generate specific code 
> based on the type information at compile-time.

Also, before you do any more nay-saying, you might want to 
revisit this talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=endKC3fDxqs 
which demonstrates precisely the kind of benefits that can be 
achieved with these kinds of changes to the compiler/runtime 
interface.

Mike