Tiny D suitable for embedded JIT

[Joakim]

On Wednesday, 23 May 2018 at 18:49:05 UTC, Dibyendu Majumdar 
wrote:
> Now that D has a better C option I was wondering if it is 
> possible to create a small subset of D that can be used as 
> embedded JIT library. I would like to trim the language to a 
> small subset of D/C - only primitive types and pointers - and 
> remove everything else. The idea is to have a high level 
> assembly language that is suitable for use as JIT backend by 
> other projects. I wanted to know if this is a feasible project 
> - using DMD as the starting point. Should I even think about 
> trying to do this?
>
> The ultimate goal is to have JIT library that is small, has 
> fast compilation, and generates reasonable code (i.e. some form 
> of global register allocation). The options I am looking at are 
> a) start from scratch, b) hack LLVM, or c) hack DMD.
>
> Regards
> Dibyendu

I don't know if this does exactly what you want, but have you 
seen it?

https://forum.dlang.org/thread/bskpxhrqyfkvaqzoospx@forum.dlang.org