On Wednesday, 21 September 2016 at 14:32:25 UTC, Stefan Koch
wrote:
Hi,
I just recorded a draft for a talk about templates and why they
are slow.
I'd be interested in questions and improvement suggestions.
I have uploaded it here :
http://www96.zippyshare.com/v/dlNhyACZ/file.html
Interesting talk. Templates are indeed slow but the reason why I
use them over CTFE functions (or why i leave out ctfe in general
and just use functions) is that they don't require 20 GB of RAM
for some medium-simple tasks (liked Pegged)
Templates could be made faster but I don't really like losing a
feature or a possibility for it. imo D is very friendly and easy
to learn for newcomers, if a feature is slowing down things a lot
but making it a bit easier to learn/use, I would prefer to keep
that feature.
