D Language Foundation July 2026 Quarterly Meeting Summary

[Dmitry Olshansky]

On Thursday, 13 August 2026 at 09:43:29 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> The D Language Foundation’s quarterly meeting for July 2026 
> took place on Friday the 3rd. It lasted a little under fifty 
> minutes.
>

> He said that the proper solution on Weka’s side was to split 
> the compilation into much smaller pieces. Still, he wanted to 
> know whether more of the compiler work could be cached, 
> particularly CTFE, so that repeated invocations could share 
> results and incremental builds could be faster. LDC could cache 
> back end work, but not the front end.

If anyone is motivated enough I could help bring in shape my 
DCache PR that caches executions of CTFE to replace the whole 
execution with a single literal. It fails to produce circularly 
linked object graphs but otherwise was pretty robust and made 
short work of ctRegex!”” invocations.
https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/7843
—
Dmitry Olshansky