About compiler memory consumption

[Puming]

On Thursday, 5 December 2013 at 13:49:51 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> 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)

Yes, I agree that for dev mode a pure runtime version would fit 
more and its implementation could take advantage of many 
functions in the CTFE version (or is that already possible?)