Can D be Interpreted?
David Nadlinger
code at klickverbot.at
Wed Jan 1 14:44:29 PST 2014
On Wednesday, 1 January 2014 at 10:27:48 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
> Why doesn't D support some kind of partial evaluation instead?
> With llvm you get to JIT for free, seems to be an overall
> simpler solution than having an interpreter in the compiler (or
> equally complex, but more powerful)
Not really. You'd probably still need a powerful constant
folder/interpreter to avoid firing up the LLVM JIT for every
single trivial CTFE invocation.
David
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