Re: DConf 2013 last talk

2013-10-13 Thread d coder
On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 12:41 AM, Rob T wrote: > I have significantly reduced CG performance issues (up to 3x faster) with > strategically placed disabling and enabling of the GC, so it may be that > the problem can be solved using carefully placed GC.disable and GC.enable > calls at points in the

Re: DConf 2013 last talk

2013-05-05 Thread deadalnix
On Sunday, 5 May 2013 at 01:55:36 UTC, bearophile wrote: Jonathan M Davis: So, it's probably only a matter of time before we have a more precise garbage collector in druntime (which will seriously reduce the false pointers problem, though I can't remember if it completely eliminates it). P

Re: DConf 2013 last talk

2013-05-04 Thread Jonathan M Davis
On Sunday, May 05, 2013 03:55:35 bearophile wrote: > Jonathan M Davis: > > So, it's > > probably only a matter of time before we have a more precise > > garbage collector > > in druntime (which will seriously reduce the false pointers > > problem, though I > > can't remember if it completely elimin

Re: DConf 2013 last talk

2013-05-04 Thread bearophile
Jonathan M Davis: So, it's probably only a matter of time before we have a more precise garbage collector in druntime (which will seriously reduce the false pointers problem, though I can't remember if it completely eliminates it). Probably it doesn't use things like a shadow stack, so it d

Re: DConf 2013 last talk

2013-05-04 Thread Jonathan M Davis
On Friday, May 03, 2013 16:18:58 Peter Alexander wrote: > On Friday, 3 May 2013 at 11:38:38 UTC, David wrote: > >> 2. Are we going to spend the next 10-20 years writing garbage > >> collectors for D? > > > > Good question, what's with the GC from last years GSoC? > > From what I understand (whic

Re: DConf 2013 last talk

2013-05-04 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2013-05-03 19:12, sk wrote: 6. ??? Stay with DWT :) -- /Jacob Carlborg

Re: DConf 2013 last talk

2013-05-04 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2013-05-03 19:30, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: * Are we getting any stable branch/releases that there's been talking about? I will discuss this. * Are we done with the surprise commits/features? I'm thinking of UDA's This as well. * Perhaps something about the DIP's. Now they just sitti

Re: DConf 2013 last talk

2013-05-03 Thread thedeemon
On Friday, 3 May 2013 at 17:12:18 UTC, sk wrote: Any plans or roadmap on including a GUI lib in phobos? I don't think that will ever happen. GUIs are just too different on different platforms and use cases, you'll never get the degree of universality for including into stdlib. My journey u

Re: DConf 2013 last talk

2013-05-03 Thread Rob T
On Friday, 3 May 2013 at 17:27:39 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 5/2/13 9:10 PM, d coder wrote: And another one. I am working on an embedded DSL on top of D Language. I am using compile time parser ctpg https://github.com/youkei/ctpg for some syntax parsing. It works great, expect for memor

Re: DConf 2013 last talk

2013-05-03 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 5/3/13 2:43 AM, Arlen wrote: 1. How many years must pass before GCC includes a front end for D? This has been discussed after Iain's talk. There's progress, both on the technical and legal front, but we don't have a precise target yet. 2. Are we going to spend the next 10-20 years writin

Re: DConf 2013 last talk

2013-05-03 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 5/3/13 2:34 AM, Tavi Cacina wrote: On Thursday, 2 May 2013 at 23:59:48 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I'll answer community questions in my last talk at DConf 2013, which design decisions in language and/or phobos, that are now more or less 'carved in stone', would you like to have differe

Re: DConf 2013 last talk

2013-05-03 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 5/3/13 1:49 AM, Dicebot wrote: On Thursday, 2 May 2013 at 23:59:48 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I'll answer community questions in my last talk at DConf 2013, which is about 24 hours from now. Please send yours here or on Twitter #dconf. Andrei Are there any chances at seeing more desig

Re: DConf 2013 last talk

2013-05-03 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 5/3/13 12:38 AM, Peter Alexander wrote: On Thursday, 2 May 2013 at 23:59:48 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I'll answer community questions in my last talk at DConf 2013, which is about 24 hours from now. Please send yours here or on Twitter #dconf. 1. How do you plan to solve the const pos

Re: DConf 2013 last talk

2013-05-03 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 5/2/13 11:22 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2013-05-03 01:59, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I'll answer community questions in my last talk at DConf 2013, which is about 24 hours from now. Please send yours here or on Twitter #dconf. Could you say something about the general development process

Re: DConf 2013 last talk

2013-05-03 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 5/2/13 11:02 PM, Sergei Nosov wrote: On Thursday, 2 May 2013 at 23:59:48 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I'll answer community questions in my last talk at DConf 2013, which is about 24 hours from now. Please send yours here or on Twitter #dconf. Andrei What are the plans regarding "functi

Re: DConf 2013 last talk

2013-05-03 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 5/2/13 9:10 PM, d coder wrote: And another one. I am working on an embedded DSL on top of D Language. I am using compile time parser ctpg https://github.com/youkei/ctpg for some syntax parsing. It works great, expect for memory footprint of the compiler which makes it impractical to parse any

Re: DConf 2013 last talk

2013-05-03 Thread sk
My journey using GUI libs is as follows: 1. Started using DWT lib (old one, when it was still supported) 2. DWT was abandoned, so I moved to DFL, tinkered with min-win etc 3. DFL is abondened now? ... moved to GTKD 4. GTKD is good, but API is hard to understand (atleast for me) 5. DWT is supporte

Re: DConf 2013 last talk

2013-05-03 Thread sk
Any plans or roadmap on including a GUI lib in phobos? Is it 5 years away? 10 years? Never?

Re: DConf 2013 last talk

2013-05-03 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 5/2/13 5:11 PM, Joseph Cassman wrote: On Thursday, 2 May 2013 at 23:59:48 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I'll answer community questions in my last talk at DConf 2013, which is about 24 hours from now. Please send yours here or on Twitter #dconf. Andrei If you could provide an update on t

Re: DConf 2013 last talk

2013-05-03 Thread Peter Alexander
On Friday, 3 May 2013 at 11:38:38 UTC, David wrote: 2. Are we going to spend the next 10-20 years writing garbage collectors for D? Good question, what's with the GC from last years GSoC? From what I understand (which could be completely incorrect) the author disappeared when GSoC ended, so

Re: DConf 2013 last talk

2013-05-03 Thread David
> 2. Are we going to spend the next 10-20 years writing garbage collectors for > D? Good question, what's with the GC from last years GSoC?

Re: DConf 2013 last talk

2013-05-03 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2013-05-03 08:32, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: Microphones were provided for all questions (and facebook even provided staff that ran microphones to people who asked them, along with a mixing engineer to cut down on feedback and adjust the level of the mics to the speaker's voice level/distanc

Re: DConf 2013 last talk

2013-05-03 Thread Arlen
On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 6:59 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > > I'll answer community questions in my last talk at DConf 2013, which is about > 24 hours from now. Please send yours here or on Twitter #dconf. > > Andrei 1. How many years must pass before GCC includes a front end for D? 2. Are we

Re: DConf 2013 last talk

2013-05-03 Thread Tavi Cacina
On Thursday, 2 May 2013 at 23:59:48 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I'll answer community questions in my last talk at DConf 2013, which design decisions in language and/or phobos, that are now more or less 'carved in stone', would you like to have differently?

Re: DConf 2013 last talk

2013-05-03 Thread Dicebot
On Thursday, 2 May 2013 at 23:59:48 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I'll answer community questions in my last talk at DConf 2013, which is about 24 hours from now. Please send yours here or on Twitter #dconf. Andrei Are there any chances at seeing more design focus on hardcore embedded nee

Re: DConf 2013 last talk

2013-05-03 Thread Peter Alexander
On Thursday, 2 May 2013 at 23:59:48 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I'll answer community questions in my last talk at DConf 2013, which is about 24 hours from now. Please send yours here or on Twitter #dconf. 1. How do you plan to solve the const postblit problem? i.e. the problem that you c

Re: DConf 2013 last talk

2013-05-02 Thread Steven Schveighoffer
On Thu, 02 May 2013 23:22:01 -0700, Jacob Carlborg wrote: Oh, and if it's not too late. Make sure there are microphones for the audience for the questions. If that's not available, it's important that the speaker (or someone) repeats the questions for the recording. Hurb Sutter is really g

Re: DConf 2013 last talk

2013-05-02 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2013-05-03 01:59, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I'll answer community questions in my last talk at DConf 2013, which is about 24 hours from now. Please send yours here or on Twitter #dconf. Could you say something about the general development process of D, how the future of that looks like.

Re: DConf 2013 last talk

2013-05-02 Thread Sergei Nosov
On Thursday, 2 May 2013 at 23:59:48 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I'll answer community questions in my last talk at DConf 2013, which is about 24 hours from now. Please send yours here or on Twitter #dconf. Andrei What are the plans regarding "functional part" of the language? 1) It seem

Re: DConf 2013 last talk

2013-05-02 Thread d coder
On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 5:41 AM, Joseph Cassman wrote: > If you could provide an update on the allocators design and implementation > -- progress and/or roadmap -- that would be great. Also if there are any > plans to update std.container as a result. > +1 And another one. I am working on an emb

Re: DConf 2013 last talk

2013-05-02 Thread Joseph Cassman
On Thursday, 2 May 2013 at 23:59:48 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I'll answer community questions in my last talk at DConf 2013, which is about 24 hours from now. Please send yours here or on Twitter #dconf. Andrei If you could provide an update on the allocators design and implementation

DConf 2013 last talk

2013-05-02 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
I'll answer community questions in my last talk at DConf 2013, which is about 24 hours from now. Please send yours here or on Twitter #dconf. Andrei