On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 07:04:56PM +0000, anonymous via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: > On Thursday, 2 October 2014 at 18:42:56 UTC, AsmMan wrote: > >I was thiking the dmd compiler did CTFE without someone ask for this, > >in the way as I've mentioned, checking for constant arguments + > >function's purity and if all this is true, it did the CTFE rather > >than generate code to compute it at run-time. In the case of it did > >happen, I just wanted to know. It was my misunderstsooding how it > >does works in dmd. > > Yeah, that would be constant folding. The compiler is free to do that. > It's just not called "CTFE" then.
CTFE grew out of constant-folding in dmd. In the dmd code, it is essentially still just a constant-folder, albeit a superpowered one. :-P T -- It is of the new things that men tire --- of fashions and proposals and improvements and change. It is the old things that startle and intoxicate. It is the old things that are young. -- G.K. Chesterton