Re: vlang and systemverilog

2017-04-10 Thread Jay Norwood via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 10 April 2017 at 20:34:53 UTC, Joakim wrote: Why is that notable? That's not any kind of official SystemVerilog site, and it notes that it's maintained by Coverify, the developers of vlang. oh, I see. I thought SystemVerilog was a trademarked name.

vlang and systemverilog

2017-04-10 Thread Jay Norwood via Digitalmars-d
The vlang project, which is D code that has been discussed here previously, now appears to have some relationship with systemverilog. Was there an announcement here? http://systemverilog.net/getting-started/installing-vlang/

Re: Pitching D to academia

2016-03-10 Thread Jay Norwood via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 6 March 2016 at 07:38:01 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: What are the points that you would stress? I am thinking that they would be interested more in whether D is better as a teaching tool. Do you agree? Ali I think the D std.parallelism library would be a nicer starting point than usi

Re: Self-Modifying code for user settings optimization

2016-01-10 Thread Jay Norwood via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 9 January 2016 at 21:09:05 UTC, Jason Jeffory wrote: It might, which is why I asked, seems like it would be something trivial to do if the address of the function and relative address of the "variable" can be gotten at "compile time"(not sure it is possible by maybe one could write

Re: What keeps you from using gtkd or dlangui

2015-10-09 Thread Jay Norwood via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 5 October 2015 at 16:35:39 UTC, Russel Winder wrote: As far as I am aware SWT is only used in Eclipse. Eclipse can be used to create light-weight RCP apps which include SWT. For example, at work we've used swt-xy-graph in some light-weight apps. There is also a light-weight swtc

Re: std.data.json formal review

2015-08-15 Thread Jay Norwood via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 13 August 2015 at 10:51:47 UTC, Sönke Ludwig wrote: I think we really need to have an informal pre-vote about the BigInt and DOM efficiency vs. functionality issues. Basically there are three options for each: 1. Keep them: May have an impact on compile time for big DOMs (run tim

Re: 0 is not a power of 2

2015-05-22 Thread Jay Norwood via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 22 May 2015 at 05:24:15 UTC, Jay Norwood wrote: first result uses if (((x-1)&(x|0x8000))==0) 00F81005 mov eax,edx 00F81007 lea ecx,[edx-1] 00F8100A or eax,8000h 00F8100F testecx,eax Above is what a Microsoft C++ compiler does with the fi

Re: 0 is not a power of 2

2015-05-21 Thread Jay Norwood via Digitalmars-d
This formula measures a little faster on dmd. Release build, three tests, find all values for 0..uint.max. first result uses if (((x-1)&(x|0x8000))==0) second result uses if ((x & (x - 1) | !x) == 0) D:\pow2\pow2\pow2\Release>pow2 duration(msec)=10259 duration(msec)=10689 D:\pow2\pow2\