Newbie questions. Which Compiler to start with? Real Time behaviour? Has anyone converted CImg yet?

[maarten van damme]

1) afaik you can't cross compile to arm with dmd. I know it's possible with
gdc.
2) There are people who successfully use d without gc. I think andrei
posted a stub gc that throws an exception every time the garbage collector
is tried to get used. You can't use whole phobos (yet) without gc.


2013/9/2 John Carter <john.carter at taitradio.com>

> So I'm a reasonably experienced C/C++/Ruby/... programmer and D is looking
> very Good to me...
>
> So, time to get serious and sit down and learn it.
>
> Ultimately it won't pay me to learn it unless I can ultimately take my
> colleagues along.
>
> Currently they are itching to move from C to C++, and I'm trying to
> convince them not to.
>
> We work in the embedded linux real time area, so here are a few newbie
> questions that I couldn't spot the answer to...
>
> 1) Which D compiler should we start with? We use gcc/g++ for everything
> else, is gcd a good choice or should we stick with Digital mars one? (We
> would be cross compiling to sparc or arm)
>
> 2) The traditional argument against garbage collected languages in real
> time environments is that they sporadically lock up while collecting
> resulting in missed real time deadlines. Certainly the "state of the art"
> in GC has moved beyond this, and also there are workarounds for the
> problem. Is it possible to do real time programming in D?
>
> 3) A good starter project for me would be to take a well known
> cpu-intensive C++ template rich project and convert it to D and then
> present that side-by-side to my colleagues.
>
> I like playing around with CImg, http://cimg.sourceforge.net/
>
> CImg it is one huge template with chunks of macro magic to do image
> processing.
>
> Before I start, has anyone converted CImg to DImg yet?
>
> Thanks!
>
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