whatever I do, things get slower and bigger

[BCS]

Reply to Jarrett,

> "Bill Baxter" <dnewsgroup at billbaxter.com> wrote in message
> news:frce57$1vf5$1 at digitalmars.com...
> 
>> Yes I believe Don has previously reported that CTFE manipulations on
>> strings basically *never* free the intermediate strings.  Basically
>> the CTFE engine needs a garbage collector (or equiv).
>> 
>> --bb
>> 
> You know, if we had a D compiler made in D, it'd be GCed.
> 

Odd, that's what the project the problem showed up on is.

My plan for CTFE is to compile all code to a high level IL byte code that 
can be converted to machine code for object files but can also be executed 
directly on some sort of VM, I should be able to shoehorn in a GC (or better) 
somewhere in that .