On Wednesday, 5 July 2017 at 22:05:53 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote:
On Wednesday, 5 July 2017 at 21:58:45 UTC, Lewis wrote:
I was reading
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2017/07/05/Rust-Roadmap-Update.html, which mentioned that the Rust compiler now has a mode to go through the motions of compiling and sho
On Thursday, 6 July 2017 at 23:50:24 UTC, bauss wrote:
On Thursday, 6 July 2017 at 23:12:03 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Thu, Jul 06, 2017 at 10:31:10PM +, Meta via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Thursday, 6 July 2017 at 21:58:45 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 06, 2017 at 09:42:22PM +, Meta
On Thursday, 6 July 2017 at 20:24:24 UTC, FoxyBrown wrote:
On Thursday, 6 July 2017 at 18:11:13 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Thu, Jul 06, 2017 at 06:10:57PM +, FoxyBrown via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
Create an auto pointer, handy in some cases and fits in the
language as a natural generalization.
On Thursday, 6 July 2017 at 22:58:36 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grostad
wrote:
On Thursday, 6 July 2017 at 18:26:18 UTC, Joakim wrote:
so you can seamlessly pass objects to javascript. I believe
people have written their own GCs that target webasm, so the D
GC can likely be made to do the same.
You wo
On Friday, 7 July 2017 at 00:58:57 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
On Friday, 7 July 2017 at 00:39:32 UTC, Meta wrote:
(https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/3615)
Of course this could also get confusing pretty fast. I wish we
at least had the `int[$]` syntax but it's not a huge loss.
Thanks for posting th
On Friday, 7 July 2017 at 00:39:32 UTC, Meta wrote:
(https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/3615)
Of course this could also get confusing pretty fast. I wish we
at least had the `int[$]` syntax but it's not a huge loss.
Thanks for posting the link. Made for interesting reading.
This was another
On Thursday, 6 July 2017 at 23:51:13 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Thu, Jul 06, 2017 at 11:50:24PM +, bauss via
Digitalmars-d wrote: [...]
Let's say you have.
auto a = foo();
You have no idea what auto actually is in that case, but
auto* a = foo();
You know auto is a pointer of whatever foo
On Thursday, 6 July 2017 at 23:51:13 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Thu, Jul 06, 2017 at 11:50:24PM +, bauss via
Digitalmars-d wrote: [...]
Let's say you have.
auto a = foo();
You have no idea what auto actually is in that case, but
auto* a = foo();
You know auto is a pointer of whatever foo
On Thu, Jul 06, 2017 at 11:50:24PM +, bauss via Digitalmars-d wrote:
[...]
> Let's say you have.
>
> auto a = foo();
>
> You have no idea what auto actually is in that case, but
>
> auto* a = foo();
>
> You know auto is a pointer of whatever foo returns.
Ah, I see. So if foo() doesn't ret
On Thursday, 6 July 2017 at 23:12:03 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Thu, Jul 06, 2017 at 10:31:10PM +, Meta via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Thursday, 6 July 2017 at 21:58:45 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 06, 2017 at 09:42:22PM +, Meta via
> Digitalmars-d wrote:
> > On Thursday, 6 July 20
On Thu, Jul 06, 2017 at 10:31:10PM +, Meta via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Thursday, 6 July 2017 at 21:58:45 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 06, 2017 at 09:42:22PM +, Meta via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> > > On Thursday, 6 July 2017 at 18:10:57 UTC, FoxyBrown wrote:
> > > > Create an auto p
On Thursday, 6 July 2017 at 18:26:18 UTC, Joakim wrote:
so you can seamlessly pass objects to javascript. I believe
people have written their own GCs that target webasm, so the D
GC can likely be made to do the same.
You would have to emulate the stack...
On Thursday, 6 July 2017 at 21:58:45 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Thu, Jul 06, 2017 at 09:42:22PM +, Meta via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Thursday, 6 July 2017 at 18:10:57 UTC, FoxyBrown wrote:
> Create an auto pointer, handy in some cases and fits in the
> language as a natural generalization.
On Thu, Jul 06, 2017 at 09:42:22PM +, Meta via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Thursday, 6 July 2017 at 18:10:57 UTC, FoxyBrown wrote:
> > Create an auto pointer, handy in some cases and fits in the language
> > as a natural generalization.
>
> It's been suggested before (as well as more powerful ge
On Thursday, 6 July 2017 at 18:10:57 UTC, FoxyBrown wrote:
Create an auto pointer, handy in some cases and fits in the
language as a natural generalization.
It's been suggested before (as well as more powerful
generalization for slices and associative arrays), but Andrei
vetoed it so it proba
On Thursday, 6 July 2017 at 18:26:18 UTC, Joakim wrote:
On Thursday, 6 July 2017 at 17:19:34 UTC, bauss wrote:
On Thursday, 6 July 2017 at 15:34:08 UTC, Wulfklaue wrote:
Is there a future where we can see WebAssembly as part of D?
Seeing Rusts backbone already producing wasm is impressive.
We
On Thursday, 6 July 2017 at 16:00:05 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote:
On Thursday, 6 July 2017 at 13:53:08 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
Does anyone have experience with https://www.patreon.com
either as a patron or creator? Thanks! -- Andrei
It works well for supporting artists. I support many peo
On 7/6/17 6:53 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d wrote:
Does anyone have experience with https://www.patreon.com either as a
patron or creator? Thanks! -- Andrei
I have experience as both. Feel free to grab me off-list to talk in
more detail.
On Thursday, 6 July 2017 at 13:53:08 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
Does anyone have experience with https://www.patreon.com either
as a patron or creator? Thanks! -- Andrei
I support someone who is a pure intellectual now, and can no
longer survive in the university system, with his radical
On 07/06/2017 01:24 PM, FoxyBrown wrote:
> On Thursday, 6 July 2017 at 18:11:13 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 06, 2017 at 06:10:57PM +, FoxyBrown via Digitalmars-d
>> wrote:
>>> Create an auto pointer, handy in some cases and fits in the language
>>> as a natural generalization.
>>
>>
On Thu, Jul 06, 2017 at 08:24:24PM +, FoxyBrown via Digitalmars-d wrote:
[...]
> auto x = ...
>
> auto* x = ...
>
> auto* is the pointerized version of auto.
>
>
> e.g.,
>
> int x = ...
>
> int* x = ...
>
> typeof(x) y = ...
> typeof(x)* y = ...
>
>
> obviously the rhs must be congruen
On Thursday, 6 July 2017 at 18:11:13 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Thu, Jul 06, 2017 at 06:10:57PM +, FoxyBrown via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
Create an auto pointer, handy in some cases and fits in the
language as a natural generalization.
What's an auto pointer?
T
is it not obvious?
auto x =
Am Wed, 21 Jun 2017 15:11:39 +
schrieb Joakim :
> the gcc tree:
>
> https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2017-06/msg00111.html
>
> Congratulations to Iain and the gdc team. :)
>
> I found out because it's on the front page of HN right now, where
> commenters are asking questions about D.
I missed t
On Thursday, 6 July 2017 at 16:00:05 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote:
On Thursday, 6 July 2017 at 13:53:08 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
Does anyone have experience with https://www.patreon.com
either as a patron or creator? Thanks! -- Andrei
It works well for supporting artists. I support many peo
On 07/06/2017 10:58 AM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
Recently I discovered a strange bug in dmd -cov, that I finally got some
time today to reduce to a smallish test case. However, I can't seem to
get rid of the dependency on std.stdio; anybody has any idea how to
reduce this code further?
On Thursday, 6 July 2017 at 17:19:34 UTC, bauss wrote:
On Thursday, 6 July 2017 at 15:34:08 UTC, Wulfklaue wrote:
Is there a future where we can see WebAssembly as part of D?
Seeing Rusts backbone already producing wasm is impressive.
WebAssembly currently does not support a GC ...so it fair t
On Thu, Jul 06, 2017 at 06:10:57PM +, FoxyBrown via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> Create an auto pointer, handy in some cases and fits in the language
> as a natural generalization.
What's an auto pointer?
T
--
Truth, Sir, is a cow which will give [skeptics] no more milk, and so they are
gone to
Create an auto pointer, handy in some cases and fits in the
language as a natural generalization.
On Thursday, 6 July 2017 at 17:19:34 UTC, bauss wrote:
I'm just curious how it doesn't support GC? Like if you can
allocate and free memory then you can have a GC.
Currently there is no native GC build into WebAssembly. This is
planned for the future.
If your language is designed around allo
Recently I discovered a strange bug in dmd -cov, that I finally got some
time today to reduce to a smallish test case. However, I can't seem to
get rid of the dependency on std.stdio; anybody has any idea how to
reduce this code further?
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17613
This
On Wednesday, 5 July 2017 at 20:32:08 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote:
On Wednesday, 5 July 2017 at 20:12:40 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
I vaguely remember there was talk about compressing symbols
when they get too long... is there any hope of seeing this
realized in the near future?
Yes there is.
Rainer
On Thursday, 6 July 2017 at 15:34:08 UTC, Wulfklaue wrote:
Is there a future where we can see WebAssembly as part of D?
Seeing Rusts backbone already producing wasm is impressive.
WebAssembly currently does not support a GC ...so it fair the
assume that this will be the main issue for LDC?
I
On Thu, Jul 06, 2017 at 01:32:04PM +, Atila Neves via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Thursday, 6 July 2017 at 12:00:29 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
[...]
> > Yeah, it's usually all these D specific compile time features that
> > is slowing down compilation.
> >
> > DWT and Tango are two good examples
On Tuesday, 4 July 2017 at 04:49:29 UTC, Manu wrote:
I've been using code-d for a while, and it generally works
well. I've also noticed there's another plugin available, which
at the time I first looked, appeared to be older and
less-featured than code-d.
I've recently had a couple of colleag
On Wednesday, 5 July 2017 at 09:41:40 UTC, Nicholas Wilson wrote:
@Mike Parker, what kind of things do you want me to write for
the blog?
Anything you can expand on beyond your DConf talk. Add a link to
the talk video & slides in the introductory paragraph, touch on
one or two points you t
On Thursday, 6 July 2017 at 13:53:08 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
Does anyone have experience with https://www.patreon.com either
as a patron or creator? Thanks! -- Andrei
It works well for supporting artists. I support many people with
it.
However, if you're thinking of an application fo
Is there a future where we can see WebAssembly as part of D?
Seeing Rusts backbone already producing wasm is impressive.
WebAssembly currently does not support a GC ...so it fair the
assume that this will be the main issue for LDC?
I see the move towards one language for back and front-end as
On Wednesday, 5 July 2017 at 21:05:04 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
On Wednesday, 5 July 2017 at 15:48:33 UTC, Crayo List wrote:
What happens to the 3000 direct and indirect calls to open() ?
Notice how the 'interface' has not changed, only the
implementation.
No, the exception spec is par
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wrote:
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I support several creators on there. I think it works great.
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patron or creator? Thanks! -- Andrei
On Thursday, 6 July 2017 at 12:00:29 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
On 2017-07-05 22:12, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
[...]
It's not UFCS per say that causes the problem. If you're using
the traditional calling syntax it would generate the same
symbols.
[...]
Yeah, it's usually all t
On Thursday, 6 July 2017 at 11:01:26 UTC, Marco Leise wrote:
Am Thu, 06 Jul 2017 01:31:44 +
schrieb Moritz Maxeiner :
But to be clear (and the title and description of any DIP
addressing this should reflect this):
These are not checked exceptions, because checked exceptions
would require ba
On 2017-07-05 22:12, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
Over time, what is considered "idiomatic D" has changed, and nowadays it
seems to be leaning heavily towards range-based code with UFCS chains
using std.algorithm and similar reusable pieces of code.
It's not UFCS per say that causes the
Am Thu, 06 Jul 2017 01:31:44 +
schrieb Moritz Maxeiner :
> But to be clear (and the title and description of any DIP
> addressing this should reflect this):
> These are not checked exceptions, because checked exceptions
> would require bar to declare its exception set manually.
Yep, absolut
On Thursday, 6 July 2017 at 01:31:44 UTC, Moritz Maxeiner wrote:
---
void foo() throws AException throws BException { ... }
vod bar() { foo(); }
---
works and bar's exception is inferred by the compiler to
contain AException and BException.
But to be clear (and the title and description of an
Am 06.07.2017 um 09:27 schrieb Marek:
https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r14&hw=ph&test=plaintext
C++, Java and Go frameworks have very high performance. Vibe.d is
supposed to have similar performance, but in fact vibe.d performance is
very low. Why?
This is a scalability
Am 05.07.2017 um 11:41 schrieb Nicholas Wilson:
Hi all,
Now that I've (finally) finished my honours thesis, I've got time to
start working on dcompute again. I'd like to invite anyone interested in
helping to develop and/or document (or just interested in general) the
drivers for OpenCL/CUDA,
On Thursday, 6 July 2017 at 08:49:33 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote:
I'd say this is not often encoutered.
One should avoid using a different type then size_t for the
index, as it can have negative performance implications.
I thought size_t was what it lowered down to using if you used
something else
On Thursday, 6 July 2017 at 09:06:18 UTC, Guillaume Chatelet
wrote:
ubyte[256] data;
foreach(ubyte i; 0..256) {
ubyte x = data[i];
}
Yes. Much better. What's the rewrite in this case? Using a
size_t internally and casting to ubyte?
I was just wondering
On Thursday, 6 July 2017 at 09:11:44 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
ubyte[256] data;
if (data.length > 0) {
ubyte i = 0;
do {
writeln(i);
} while ((++i) != cast(ubyte)data.length);
}
Here is another version that will work ok on CPUs that can issue
many instructions in para
On Thursday, 6 July 2017 at 09:11:44 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
ubyte[256] data;
if (data.length > 0) {
ubyte i = 0;
do {
writeln(i);
} while ((++i) != cast(ubyte)data.length);
}
You also need to add an assert before the if to check that the
last index can be represent
On Thursday, 6 July 2017 at 08:26:42 UTC, Guillaume Chatelet
wrote:
A correct lowering would be:
ubyte[256] data;
for(ubyte i = 0;;++i) {
ubyte x = data[i];
...
if(i==255) break;
}
That could lead to two branches in machine language, try to think
about it in terms of if and do-while
On Thursday, 6 July 2017 at 09:00:47 UTC, Andrea Fontana wrote:
On Thursday, 6 July 2017 at 08:26:42 UTC, Guillaume Chatelet
wrote:
From the programmer's point of view the original code makes
sense.
A correct lowering would be:
ubyte[256] data;
for(ubyte i = 0;;++i) {
ubyte x = data[i];
On Thursday, 6 July 2017 at 08:57:42 UTC, Nemanja Boric wrote:
On Thursday, 6 July 2017 at 08:49:33 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote:
On Thursday, 6 July 2017 at 08:26:42 UTC, Guillaume Chatelet
wrote:
[...]
I'd say this is not often encoutered.
One should avoid using a different type then size_t for t
On Thursday, 6 July 2017 at 08:26:42 UTC, Guillaume Chatelet
wrote:
From the programmer's point of view the original code makes
sense.
A correct lowering would be:
ubyte[256] data;
for(ubyte i = 0;;++i) {
ubyte x = data[i];
...
if(i==255) break;
}
or:
ubyte[256] data;
foreach(ubyte
On Thursday, 6 July 2017 at 08:49:33 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote:
On Thursday, 6 July 2017 at 08:26:42 UTC, Guillaume Chatelet
wrote:
[...]
I'd say this is not often encoutered.
One should avoid using a different type then size_t for the
index, as it can have negative performance implications.
I
On Thursday, 6 July 2017 at 08:26:42 UTC, Guillaume Chatelet
wrote:
I stumbled upon https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12685
In essence:
[...]
`ubyte` can clearly hold a value from 0 to 255 so it should be
ok. No need for 256 ?!
So I decided to fix it https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pu
I stumbled upon https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12685
In essence:
ubyte[256] data;
foreach (ubyte i, x; data) {}
Error: index type 'ubyte' cannot cover index range 0..256
`ubyte` can clearly hold a value from 0 to 255 so it should be
ok. No need for 256 ?!
So I decided to fix it
https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r14&hw=ph&test=plaintext
C++, Java and Go frameworks have very high performance. Vibe.d is
supposed to have similar performance, but in fact vibe.d
performance is very low. Why?
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