On 2010-12-20 12:50:47 -0500, Jacob Carlborg <d...@me.com> said:
On 2010-12-19 22:02, Michel Fortin wrote:
On 2010-12-19 11:11:03 -0500, Jacob Carlborg <d...@me.com> said:
I can clearly see that you haven't used an Objective-C/D bridge. The
reason (or at least one of the reasons) for which Michel Fortin (as
well as I) gave up the Objective-C/D bridge and started to modify DMD
is template bloat. I'm not saying that using template strings as
lambdas is going to bloat your executable/library as much as the
bridge does but I always think twice before adding a template to my code.
I also want to add that the code bloat in the D/Objective-C bridge was
more because the bridge needed to create two stubs for each method in
all Cocoa classes, and those stubs contained code to translate
exceptions from one model to the other. Using templates and mixins made
the creation of those stubs easy, but I don't think another method of
generating these stubs would have faired better.
I was thinking about having the tool that creates the bindings
generating all the necessary code inline and skip all the templates,
just to see if there would be a difference in the speed of the
compilation and the size of the generated binaries.
That'd certainly make an interesting comparison.
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Michel Fortin
michel.for...@michelf.com
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