On Thursday, 24 January 2013 at 07:55:37 UTC, Jacob Carlborg
wrote:
On 2013-01-24 03:35, deadalnix wrote:
SDC does something similar with LLVM JIT capabilities.
That's the correct approach.
The question is not so much about correctness, but about
performance.
Building an LLVM function and JIT-compiling it every time you
need to evaluate a D expression will completely ruin your compile
times (and I say that as an LLVM proponent). The idea itself is
interesting for computationally heavy CTFE code, but I don't
think it is feasible to go without lightweight code at least for
simple »constant folding«-type applications.
David
