Feedback from the Gripes and Wishes Campaign

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On 5/29/23 1:18 AM, Walter Bright wrote:

> I tried to do that at one point, and failed, after spending a couple 
> weeks on it. It's not impossible, it's just that our CTFE implementation 
> is a rat's nest and defies such improvements.

It sounds like we need to revisit how CTFE is implemented. This should 
be a priority for D.

>> If malloc allocates GC memory, wouldn't the GC just take care of it?
> 
> Then you might as well just use the GC instead of malloc.
> 

The point is to make functions that currently use malloc CTFE-able, not 
to rewrite those functions so they are CTFE-able.

It's not as easy as I have said, but I think it's still doable.

-Steve