On 26/07/10 21:52, Eric Niebler wrote:
I confess I'm having a hard time seeing how the code posted in
Manjunath's original email could result in something that can be
introspected at runtime. Does it generate byte code? A runtime
polymorphic AST? And the JIT ... does it actually generate machine code
that then gets executed?
Yeah screw introspection. It usually generates C code in a string then
JIT it using w/e compiler is lying around.
Manjunath asked about why this technique is popular in industry. I don't
know; I've never heard about it before. Is it because it's easier then
programming with expression templates? Maybe had proto been available
earlier we'd see more ET-based DSELs today. That could just be my ego
talking. ;-
Popular != pushed by Intel/Google.
For me it's a bad solution. Hence why we look at CT-EDSL
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