On Monday, 31 October 2016 at 13:29:01 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote:
Hi Guys, since I got a few complaints about giving minor status
updates in the announce group, I am opening this thread.
I will start with giving an overview of what works and what
does not work.
Currently the only basic type you can do arithmetic on is int.
Altough you can compare longs since a few days.
These are the constructs that will work.
- foreach on static arrays strings and range-foreach (those
kinds (0 .. 64)).
- switches (even deeply nested ones)
- for and while loops
- ternary expressions (? :)
- if and else statements (as long as you don't use && and || )
- lables and gotos
- arithmetic expressions as well as post and pre increment and
decrement
Constructs that will not work (but are actively worked on)
- assignment to static array cells
- long ulong arithmetic.
- function calls
- dynamic arrays and slices
- pointers
- structs
- && and ||
- sliceing
Constructs that will not work and are futher down the list.
- classes
- closures
- boundschecks
- asserts
Please note that there will probably be bugs all over the place.
So even the working features might not be working completely.
FunctionPointers and plain function calls are currently in
progress!
Also I made further performance improvements to the
Bytecode-generator.
As of now it needs around 50 nano-seconds per generated
instruction.
Generation + Interpretation execution of trivial functions now
takes LESS then a microsecond on contemporary machines!
