Don wrote: > ToNyTeCh wrote: >> Seriously, I wanna know. How many lines of compiler code does it >> take for each (Walt should have the best handle on this, surely)? >> The LOC is one parameter, but I don't want just that -- it just came >> to mind while typing the overall question. The intricacy of the >> compiler is much more important thatn the LOC. (Is D's compiler more >> intricate than C++'s?). Any facts, feelings, guesses, whatever, are >> all welcomed in response. The complexity in regard to usage would be >> a good thing to hear about from users of all levels of experience >> (with D and other languages). > > This is an interesting question. The difficulty in performing a direct > comparison (LOC or similar) is that DMD still has some implementation > gaps, so it will get bigger. > > The parser for D is an order of magnitude simpler than C++, because it > is completely separated from the semantic pass. In fact, generally > this is true of the language: although there are some features that > require a lot of code, they are generally well-contained. Templates > are much simpler to implement than in C++, even though they are much > more powerful, because they are well-contained. > So generally, the compiler is less intricate. > > But in terms of LOC, by the time everything in D is fully > implemented, I doubt that a D compiler will be significantly shorter > than a C++ one.
And who cares?
