Re: Very short article with with manual memory management in C++ and D.
On Wednesday, 6 February 2013 at 21:35:12 UTC, MattCoder wrote: On Wednesday, 6 February 2013 at 13:16:45 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote: I just wanted to show that the pointer tricks for memory management are not an exclusivity from C and C++. I get it! Just one more note, would you have done any benchmark test on between both versions? Not really, it is very simple code to be worth doing any benchmarks.
Re: Another opportunity for a major design win has presented itself
On 2/7/2013 12:34 PM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: What do you mean by design win? You mean we'd win another company over to D? Yes (for a project of theirs).
Re: Another opportunity for a major design win has presented itself
On 2/7/13, Walter Bright newshou...@digitalmars.com wrote: On 2/7/2013 12:34 PM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: What do you mean by design win? You mean we'd win another company over to D? Yes (for a project of theirs). Can you give us a teaser on generally what kind of work they do?
Re: Another opportunity for a major design win has presented itself
On Thursday, 7 February 2013 at 20:16:03 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: No, I can't say who it is at this time. Sorry. But it is a huge opportunity for us. This is nice. To get the design win, we need to: (a) get dynamic linking and loading to work Wasn't this realized before? By the way, last weeks there seems to be increasing dynamic linking loading buzz like it was not an issue for ages. (b) improve language safety without degrading efficiency This is vague. Language safety (meaning design improvement) or implementation (fixing bugs)? How you can measure such improvement? (c) improve quality as always This is also vague. Quality of what: dmd/druntime/phobos? Of course, these things benefit pretty much all D users anyway. Initially, (a) is the most important. I guess recent patches dedicated to the issue came at right time.
Re: Another opportunity for a major design win has presented itself
On 2/7/2013 1:01 PM, Maxim Fomin wrote: I guess recent patches dedicated to the issue came at right time. The timing is indeed fortuitous. As for your comments about vagueness, yes, it is vague. The DLL support is clear, though, it either works or it doesn't. The other issues are a work in progress, and they understand that. We just have to make progress.
Re: Another opportunity for a major design win has presented itself
On Thursday, 7 February 2013 at 21:11:18 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 2/7/2013 1:01 PM, Maxim Fomin wrote: I guess recent patches dedicated to the issue came at right time. The timing is indeed fortuitous. As for your comments about vagueness, yes, it is vague. The DLL support is clear, though, it either works or it doesn't. The other issues are a work in progress, and they understand that. We just have to make progress. I know this is off-topic, but can/do companies purchase D support from you/Digital Mars ? Nick
Re: Another opportunity for a major design win has presented itself
Am 07.02.2013 22:11, schrieb Walter Bright: On 2/7/2013 1:01 PM, Maxim Fomin wrote: I guess recent patches dedicated to the issue came at right time. The timing is indeed fortuitous. As for your comments about vagueness, yes, it is vague. The DLL support is clear, though, it either works or it doesn't. The other issues are a work in progress, and they understand that. We just have to make progress. Well, 110 open pull requests on DMD, awaiting their merge, look like progress to me And Phobos has 43! Lot's of progress
Re: Another opportunity for a major design win has presented itself
On Thursday, 7 February 2013 at 20:16:03 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: No, I can't say who it is at this time. Sorry. But it is a huge opportunity for us. To get the design win, we need to: (a) get dynamic linking and loading to work (b) improve language safety without degrading efficiency (c) improve quality as always Of course, these things benefit pretty much all D users anyway. Initially, (a) is the most important. That is cool, but what is the target platform - Win/Lin, 32/64? Oleg.
Re: Another opportunity for a major design win has presented itself
Am Thu, 07 Feb 2013 22:01:10 +0100 schrieb Maxim Fomin ma...@maxim-fomin.ru: On Thursday, 7 February 2013 at 20:16:03 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: (a) get dynamic linking and loading to work Wasn't this realized before? By the way, last weeks there seems to be increasing dynamic linking loading buzz like it was not an issue for ages. It is like the news: Things boil up, get covered for a week and disappear from public sight for a year. It has been an issue but people have probably arranged with static linking for now or not started to write a particular program in D. I remember I've tried to use structs with const members for a while for example, but arranged with making every field mutable. Now the topic showed up again after months. -- Marco
Re: Another opportunity for a major design win has presented itself
On 2/7/2013 10:36 PM, Oleg Kuporosov wrote: That is cool, but what is the target platform - Win/Lin, 32/64? Initially, Linux. Once that is worked out, doing the others should be straightforward.
