Dynamic Code in D
Robert Fraser
fraserofthenight at gmail.com
Sat Jan 12 10:09:42 PST 2008
Wow; that's a cool project and as much of it as you're willing to
open-source would be awesome, even if it mainly serves as an educational
tool. Dynamic code support has been something D has been lacking for a
while. I don't know the answer to most of your questions, but...
Michael Wilson wrote:
> 1. Support for AMD64 on Linux is absolutely essential; these datasets
> are several gigabytes in size and need to be loaded into memory. Plus
> there is a nontrivial amount of 64-bit integer manipulation in the Java
> code. Linux obviously because what sane person would waste money on
> Windows Server licenses for compute servers? I haven't been able to
> track down the latest estimate for when DMD will support AMD64, but at
> least GDC does now. Is this stable enough for production use?
AFAIK, the code generator on GDC is more mature/stable than DMD. It uses
the GCC backend, so if you consider GCC's AMD64 codegen stable, then
GDC's will follow.
Anyway, good luck figuring all this out!
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