A Friendly Challenge for D

[Vijay Nayar]

On Saturday, 13 October 2018 at 15:19:07 UTC, Jabari Zakiya wrote:
> On Saturday, 13 October 2018 at 14:32:33 UTC, welkam wrote:
>> On Saturday, 13 October 2018 at 09:22:16 UTC, Vijay Nayar 
>> wrote:
>>> [...]
>>
>> import algorithm
>>
>> thats all but then it spits out
>>
>> lib/nim/pure/algorithm.nim(144, 11) Error: interpretation 
>> requires too many iterations
>
> My mistake. I updated the file and forgot to include the 
> 'import algorithm' directive. The file is now fixed to include 
> it. Download the corrected version or patch your file 
> accordingly.
>
> As stated in the file intro **YOU MUST DO THIS** to get it to 
> compile with current Nim (they were supposed to fix this in 
> this version 0.19.0 but didn't).
>
>  To compile for nim versions <= 0.19.0 do following:
>  1) in file: ~/nim-0.19.0/compiler/vmdef.nim
>  2) set variable: MaxLoopIterations* = 1_000_000_000 (1 Billion 
> or >)
>  3) then rebuild sysem: ./koch boot -d:release
>
> If you are using 'choosenim' to install Nim (highly advisable) 
> the full path is:
>
>  ~/.choosenim/toolchains/nim-0.19.0/compiler/vmdef.nim
>
> I'll post performance results from my laptop to give reference 
> times to compare against.

Ok, now it builds.  I was previously following the build 
instructions from the Nim website and am not super clear what the 
"koch" tool does, but following your instructions, the program 
does build and run.  I'll take a stab at making a D version.