A Friendly Challenge for D

[Vijay Nayar]

On Saturday, 13 October 2018 at 18:05:45 UTC, Jabari Zakiya wrote:
>
> It may be also running into a hard time limit imposed on 
> compilation that Nim had/has that prevented my code from 
> initially compiling. I'm generating a lot of PG parameter 
> constants at compile time, and it's doing a lot of number 
> crunching and building larger and larger arrays of constants as 
> the PG's get larger.
>
> Try compiling with successive PG's (just P5, then P5 and P7, 
> etc) to see where it fails. That will let you know the code is 
> working correctly, and that the compiler is choking either/and 
> because of a hard time limit and/or memory limit. That's why I 
> put in a compiler output statement in 'genPGparameters' to see 
> the progression of the PG parameters being built by the 
> compiler to initially find when the compiler started choking. 
> You may also need to patch whatever facility in the D compiler 
> chain that controls this too.

It's P17, the biggest one that takes the longest to build in the 
Nim version. I actually don't know what memory limits exist for 
the D compiler at compile-time, so I may need to do some homework.