About compiler memory consumption

[Dicebot]

On Thursday, 5 December 2013 at 04:02:58 UTC, Puming wrote:
> There maybe another traditional approach, by converting the .dt 
> diet templates directly into D source code BEFORE the actuall 
> compilation. That is the way many other HTML template systems 
> use, and the performance is fairly good.

It is somewhat complicated by the very tight integration between 
D handler host and Diet - you can expose D symbols for rendering 
context to template. It is still possible to do it that way but 
is likely to require more efforts and effectively will just to 
the same thing as good JIT-ed CTFE should. I don't like it 
because it is too effort-demanding for a quick hack and not 
suitable in the long term by design (one of D goals was to remove 
reliance on external build steps as much as possible)