Chat with Stefan Koch about CTFE reimplementation

[Stefan Koch via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 23 May 2016 at 16:32:30 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
> On Monday, 23 May 2016 at 15:57:42 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote:
>> Hello!
>>
>> [...]
>
> Call me party pooper or something but this whole things seems 
> to get way out of control.
>
> In order to asses the quality of the new design, one need to 
> compare it to a baseline (aka the existing design) or one is 
> basically going blind and unlikely to end up anywhere.
>
> There are obvious low hanging fruits in the existing design. 
> For instance using a region allocator and blast it all after a 
> CTFE run. It is like we have a car with square wheels, and you 
> guys a reinventing a whole new car without even trying to maybe 
> put round wheel on the existing one and see how it goes.
>
> Overall, that means you are embarking in an expensive project, 
> with 0 visibility on the actual value provided.

I get your point.
However to stick with your car metaphor.
We have a car with square wheels and a weak frame.
As soon as round wheels enable it to go faster something else 
will give.
Also I don't want a car.
I want a rocket.