Bill Baxter Wrote: > > Bill, > > > > D4 maybe. In the present mood I think you are spitting in the wind! > > I'm just proposing it as a fun project if anyone is interested. > Shouldn't require any compiler changes. Unless roadblocks are found > that require some compiler changes, in which case it's better to know > about those now than later on. I see AD as a category of interesting > numerical techniques that a sufficiently advanced compiler can make > much less painful to use. Like expression templates. I think D2 has > most of what would be needed already. The basic idea of AD (forward > AD, anyway) is pretty simple and quite elegant IMO, and worth learning > about anyway, for anyone interested in numerical computing, > computational physics, etc. > > --bb
Bill, Has there been a discussion about expression templates - I have never been able to understand why they only apply to declarations. That sounds interesting. Steve