Not really an article or anything - this was planned as just a
post to this newsgroup, but I decided to put it somewhere
suitable for larger blocks of text with formatting:
http://blog.thecybershadow.net/2013/07/28/low-overhead-components/
On 28/07/13 02:04, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 01:46:31AM +0200, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
>> I don't know much about debian, but dmd itself doesn't need X, nor
>> should phobos. I compile and run D programs on headless web servers
>> every day.
>>
>> If you can't ignore the dependencies
On Saturday, 27 July 2013 at 17:53:52 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 7/27/2013 8:58 AM, Tyler Jameson Little wrote:
Has anyone started working on this? Are there any openssh
wrappers lying around
somewhere? I may have a crack at it myself it noone has
started on it.
https://github.com/D-Program
On Sunday, 28 July 2013 at 00:06:32 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On that note, though, why on earth are we depending on
xdg-utils?
For xdg-open, which is used in std.process.browse, and the dman
utility.
On Sunday, 28 July 2013 at 00:16:54 UTC, nazriel wrote:
On Sunday, 28 July 2013 at 00:09:04 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 02:03:47AM +0200, nazriel wrote:
[...]
I am afraid that DMD is the one pulling in X stuff.
I suspect it may be because of -man switch. That would
explain
On Sunday, 28 July 2013 at 00:09:04 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 02:03:47AM +0200, nazriel wrote:
[...]
I am afraid that DMD is the one pulling in X stuff.
I suspect it may be because of -man switch. That would explain
why
dmd wants xdg-open on Debian.
Gah. I say the .deb
On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 02:03:47AM +0200, nazriel wrote:
[...]
> I am afraid that DMD is the one pulling in X stuff.
>
> I suspect it may be because of -man switch. That would explain why
> dmd wants xdg-open on Debian.
Gah. I say the .deb should just Recommends: xdg-utils, not Depends:. As
far a
On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 01:46:31AM +0200, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> I don't know much about debian, but dmd itself doesn't need X, nor
> should phobos. I compile and run D programs on headless web servers
> every day.
>
> If you can't ignore the dependencies with the apt, downloading the
> dmd zip fi
On Saturday, 27 July 2013 at 23:46:34 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
I don't know much about debian, but dmd itself doesn't need X,
nor should phobos. I compile and run D programs on headless web
servers every day.
If you can't ignore the dependencies with the apt, downloading
the dmd zip file sho
I don't know much about debian, but dmd itself doesn't need X,
nor should phobos. I compile and run D programs on headless web
servers every day.
If you can't ignore the dependencies with the apt, downloading
the dmd zip file should be just about as easy and it doesn't pull
anything else with
On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 12:27:20AM +0200, nazriel wrote:
> What are the rationales for pulling in Xorg dependencies on headless
> machines like web server?
>
> I am installing DMD on Debian machine from D-APT but I guess
> installing from dlang.org dpkg would result in the same behaviour.
>
> Pac
What are the rationales for pulling in Xorg dependencies on
headless machines like web server?
I am installing DMD on Debian machine from D-APT but I guess
installing from dlang.org dpkg would result in the same behaviour.
Packages like noveau, readeon, intel drivers and other Xorg
utilis ar
On 7/27/2013 11:50 AM, Meta wrote:
On Saturday, 27 July 2013 at 17:52:20 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
I use a Turtlebeach Audiotron.
That may be your problem right there. Turtle Beach seems to make high-quality
products, but in reality the quality is extremely poor. I have 5 (5!) friends
now, as
On Saturday, 27 July 2013 at 17:52:20 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
I use a Turtlebeach Audiotron.
That may be your problem right there. Turtle Beach seems to make
high-quality products, but in reality the quality is extremely
poor. I have 5 (5!) friends now, as well as myself, who bought a
Turt
On Saturday, 27 July 2013 at 15:58:04 UTC, Tyler Jameson Little
wrote:
I found this thread mentioning some initial work on a crypto
library:
http://forum.dlang.org/thread/j84us9$2m5k$1...@digitalmars.com?page=1
It looks like "std.digest" is what came of that though, not
"std.crypto".
I foun
On 7/27/2013 8:58 AM, Tyler Jameson Little wrote:
Has anyone started working on this? Are there any openssh wrappers lying around
somewhere? I may have a crack at it myself it noone has started on it.
https://github.com/D-Programming-Deimos/openssl
On 7/27/2013 3:24 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
On Friday, 26 July 2013 at 19:50:22 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
But I see no point. 32 bit code is already dead on OSX, and is rapidly dying
on Linux and Windows. I hear from more and more outfits that they've
transitioned to 64 bits and are not looking
On 7/27/2013 3:31 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
On Friday, 26 July 2013 at 19:54:58 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
My current media player freezes about once every couple weeks. It's infrequent
enough to be tolerable. The Ubuntu one dies about once an hour. I gave up on
that long ago.
Then you should
I found this thread mentioning some initial work on a crypto
library:
http://forum.dlang.org/thread/j84us9$2m5k$1...@digitalmars.com?page=1
It looks like "std.digest" is what came of that though, not
"std.crypto".
I found this on the wish list:
Encryption and hashing
This is more a
On Friday, 26 July 2013 at 23:19:45 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 03:02:32PM +0200, JS wrote:
I think the next step in languages it the mutli-level
abstraction.
Right now we have the base level core programming and the
preprocessing/template/generic level above that. There is n
Walter Bright:
Although it isn't in the spec, D should be "strict aliasing".
This is because:
1. it enables better code generation
2. there are ways, such as unions, to get the other aliasing
that doesn't break strict aliasing
Is it good to add to Phobos a small template (named like
"Poin
On Saturday, 27 July 2013 at 10:31:10 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
On Friday, 26 July 2013 at 19:54:58 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
My current media player freezes about once every couple weeks.
It's infrequent enough to be tolerable. The Ubuntu one dies
about once an hour. I gave up on that long a
On 07/26/13 22:49, Walter Bright wrote:
> Jobs and Torvalds famously use(d) obscenity, and in fact being cussed out by
> either of those can be a perverse badge of honor.
>
> But I think those are exceptions, and their methods are not general license
> for others to use the same techniques.
Tha
On 25/07/2013 03:22, Brad Anderson wrote:
https://github.com/schveiguy/phobos/blob/new-io/std/io.d
Thanks, now added to the wiki:
http://wiki.dlang.org/Review_Queue#Current_Review_Queue
On Friday, 26 July 2013 at 19:54:58 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
My current media player freezes about once every couple weeks.
It's infrequent enough to be tolerable. The Ubuntu one dies
about once an hour. I gave up on that long ago.
Then you should use a Mac. They're (in)famous for when the w
On Friday, 26 July 2013 at 19:50:22 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
But I see no point. 32 bit code is already dead on OSX, and is
rapidly dying on Linux and Windows. I hear from more and more
outfits that they've transitioned to 64 bits and are not
looking back.
32bit is far from dead on ARM.
--
On Saturday, 27 July 2013 at 09:05:32 UTC, ponce wrote:
It would be great to have something like GCC's solution: warn
when pointer casts may violate the strict aliasing rule, and
provide a flag to disable it.
BTW, C++ compilers usually have an effective way to disambiguate
pointer aliasing so
On Saturday, 27 July 2013 at 06:58:04 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
2. there are ways, such as unions, to get the other aliasing
that doesn't break strict aliasing
It would be great to have something like GCC's solution: warn
when pointer casts may violate the strict aliasing rule, and
provide a
On Saturday, 27 July 2013 at 08:58:22 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 7/27/2013 1:08 AM, monarch_dodra wrote:
1. Does strict aliasing apply to slices?
I don't know what you mean.
double d;
uint* p = cast(int*)&d; //unsafe aliasing
vs
double[] d = new double[](1);
uint[] p = cast(uint[])d; //u
On 7/27/2013 1:57 AM, David Nadlinger wrote:
On Saturday, 27 July 2013 at 06:58:04 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
Although it isn't in the spec, D should be "strict aliasing". This is because:
1. it enables better code generation
2. there are ways, such as unions, to get the other aliasing that doe
On 7/27/2013 1:08 AM, monarch_dodra wrote:
1. Does strict aliasing apply to slices?
I don't know what you mean.
2. C++ uses 'char' as a 'neutral' type that can alias to anything. What about D?
Does char fill that role? Does ubyte?
I'll go with deadalnix's answer.
On Saturday, 27 July 2013 at 08:35:36 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
On Saturday, 27 July 2013 at 08:08:01 UTC, monarch_dodra wrote:
Thank you for the answer. I expected D to do strict aliasing
for the reasons you mentioned. This does come up with two
follow up question though:
1. Does strict aliasing
On Saturday, 27 July 2013 at 06:58:04 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
Although it isn't in the spec, D should be "strict aliasing".
This is because:
1. it enables better code generation
2. there are ways, such as unions, to get the other aliasing
that doesn't break strict aliasing
We need to care
On 7/27/2013 12:40 AM, deadalnix wrote:
This kind of software can leverage way to recovers that would be untolerable in
an airplane (for instance because they only work most of the time, or would
produce an erratic behavior for a short period of time, like an audio glitch).
D right now is not ve
On Saturday, 27 July 2013 at 08:08:01 UTC, monarch_dodra wrote:
Thank you for the answer. I expected D to do strict aliasing
for the reasons you mentioned. This does come up with two
follow up question though:
1. Does strict aliasing apply to slices?
2. C++ uses 'char' as a 'neutral' type that
On Saturday, 27 July 2013 at 06:58:04 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 7/26/2013 12:45 PM, monarch_dodra wrote:
On Sunday, 29 January 2012 at 16:25:33 UTC, Peter Alexander
wrote:
As for D, I can't see anything in the standard that prevents
two pointers of
different types from pointing to the same l
On Friday, 26 July 2013 at 19:54:58 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 7/26/2013 10:25 AM, deadalnix wrote:
You emphasis it quite well, and that is certainly true for a
car, a plane, or
anything potentially dangerous.
Different tradeoff apply when you talk about a video game, a
media player or and
On 7/26/2013 12:45 PM, monarch_dodra wrote:
On Sunday, 29 January 2012 at 16:25:33 UTC, Peter Alexander wrote:
As for D, I can't see anything in the standard that prevents two pointers of
different types from pointing to the same location, but I suspect it is an
assumption that is being made.
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