On Monday, 26 November 2018 at 03:09:03 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
I mean, can you think of any module in the
Python/Javascript/C# standard library that simply including it
will swell your program to the point it can't compile? I'm not
an omnipotent master programmer, but as a professional, I
can't recall ever having this situation in another library or
language.
Have you reached the point in D where you can't compile?
I thought people had reached that point already:
https://forum.dlang.org/post/mailman.3134.1517944133.9493.digitalmar...@puremagic.com
I remember reading about a never ending for loop as well. Because
of the way ctfe has to be handled "purely" without mutations,
every change is a new allocation (but i could be remembering
wrong). So just a large enough for loop because "uncompliable".
And this is just time, the memory consumption is also quite large
no?
I think there are some caveats which are not mentioned when it
comes to the fastness of the compiler. I remember last year's
advent of code, I wanted to do everything at compile time, but at
some point I thought, no, this small piece of code is taking way
too long. Not worth it. And me mate's Go code was "consistently"
fast.
