Ref counting for CTFE?

[Peter Alexander via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 31 May 2014 at 02:40:29 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
> On Thursday, 29 May 2014 at 15:28:28 UTC, safety0ff wrote:
>> If would be nice if Don could elaborate on his comment in bug 
>> #6498 (https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6498#c1)
>>
> What is really needed is the ability to update variables in 
> place.
> Currently every mutation allocates a new value.
> IMO the underlying problem is that CTFE operates on full AST
> nodes.
> To solve this, we either need a separate data representation for
> CTFE or even better work on JITing.

JITing can wait. Just an abstract interpreter would be a huge 
improvement on what we have currently. As long as it is designed 
to allow JITing in the future.