On Saturday, 8 October 2016 at 18:53:32 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
On 10/8/16 2:49 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
On 10/8/16 1:22 PM, Martin Nowak wrote:
Integrating this with a pre-compiled ldc library is a
fantastic idea
OTOH.
If we can make this work, it will be much less effort and
yield the
fastest implementation. Also would speed up the development
cycle a bit
b/c the kernels don't need to be recompiled/optimized.
You mean dmd/ldc/etc interop at binary level? Yes, that would
be pretty
rad indeed! -- Andrei
(after thinking a bit more) ... but Mir seems to rely in good
part on templates, which makes pre-compiled libraries less
effective. -- Andrei
Independent from Mir, a stable ABI for D which all compilers
follow would be a tremendous win, especially from the perspective
of shipping D stuff in Linux distributions.
So maybe this is worth attempting?