Re: Tiny Redis- a Redis driver for D

2012-07-26 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 7/26/12 4:29 PM, Adil wrote: Announcing Tiny Redis. Tiny Redis is a Redis driver for the D programming language (v2). The api is minimalist and makes working with Redis trivial. [snip] Awesome! On reddit:

Re: pfft 0.1

2012-07-24 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 7/20/12 8:02 PM, jerro wrote: On Friday, 20 July 2012 at 23:36:37 UTC, bearophile wrote: Is it worth changing the Phobos API to something similar to this API? Pfft already includes an API that is compatible with the Phobos one (pfft.stdapi). But I don't think it makes any sense to change

Re: Coming Soon: Stable D Releases!

2012-07-16 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 7/16/12 3:51 AM, Adam Wilson wrote: As a result of the D Versioning thread, we have decided to create a new organization on Github called dlang-stable. This organization will be responsible for maintaining stable releases of DMD, DRuntime, and Phobos. [snip] Thank you for reading and I hope

Re: Coming Soon: Stable D Releases!

2012-07-16 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 7/16/12 2:14 PM, Brad Anderson wrote: [snip] What is gained by this is that nobody needs to cherry-pick bugfixes into a stable repo. Cherry-picking is a substantial amount of work (for which I salute you for volunteering to undertake). It just seems unnecessary in the world of git. I'd like

Dmitry Olshansky passes the midterm evaluation at GSoC 2012

2012-07-12 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
Hello everyone, I'm pleased to announce Dmitry has passed his GSoC 2012 midterm evaluation with his project on Extended Unicode Support for D. Dmitry has done a great deal a good work independently and is ahead of schedule (therefore ready for a deserved vacation). His status page:

Re: DStep - Bindings Generator 0.0.1

2012-07-08 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 7/8/12 3:05 PM, Leandro Lucarella wrote: Jacob Carlborg, el 8 de July a las 13:13 me escribiste: On 2012-07-07 23:20, Walter Bright wrote: I think this is potentially a big deal. If it can be made complete enough, I'd like to add support into D for it, so you could do things like:

Re: DStep - Bindings Generator 0.0.1

2012-07-08 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 7/8/12 9:39 PM, Walter Bright wrote: On 7/8/2012 3:27 PM, Dmitry Olshansky wrote: I think extra syntax could be added easily WHEN the need arrives, so far 1:1 converters to extension feels fine. I don't think CTFE is good enough to parse C code in all its complex glory disagree - and

Re: DStep - Bindings Generator 0.0.1

2012-07-07 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 7/7/12 5:20 PM, Walter Bright wrote: In fact, we could make it a general facility, where if D sees: import filename.ext; that it fork/exec's the program: ext_to_D filename.ext tmpfile.d and them imports tmpfile.d. (Aside) This has an obvious security risk. Andrei

Re: DStep - Bindings Generator 0.0.1

2012-07-07 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 7/7/12 10:47 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: DStep is a tool for translating C and Objective-C headers to D modules. Awesome! On reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/w7hbg/dstep_tool_for_translating_c_and_objc_headers/ Andrei

Uniform Function Call Syntax in D - GameDev.net

2012-07-01 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/vvpfy/uniform_function_call_syntax_in_d_gamedevnet/ Andrei

Re: Missing post?

2012-05-28 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 5/28/12 2:08 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2012-05-28 07:45, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Thanks. Means something is messed up with Thunderbird - I can't see it even after repairing the index. Andrei Showed up for me using Thunderbird. Yah, I meant Thunderbird's index repair ability

TDPL Amazon sales rank at 18-months best

2012-05-27 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
Yesterday the paperback edition of TDPL has reached an Amazon sales rank of 19,426 (smaller is better). Last time the book has enjoyed a better rank was on October 29, 2010 (18,755). These numbers are estimates based on scripts scraping Amazon and should not be considered official. Andrei

Re: Ali Cehrili on D Ranges at D Conference 2012

2012-05-27 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 5/27/12 3:38 PM, Ali Çehreli wrote: On 05/27/2012 01:12 PM, Walter Bright wrote: Elements of containers (and pseudo-containers) are accessed by the range abstraction of D. D's InputRange, ForwardRange, BidirectionalRange, RandomAccessRange, and OutputRange are sufficient to connect many

Re: Missing post?

2012-05-27 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 5/28/12 12:12 AM, Ali Çehreli wrote: On 05/27/2012 09:30 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: Andrei Alexandrescuseewebsiteforem...@erdani.org wrote in message news:jpuobn$30v8$1...@digitalmars.com... There's a post that made it on forum.dlang.org but not on the NNTP site. Did that happen to anyone

Voldemort Types in D

2012-05-09 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/telhj/voldemort_types_in_d/ Andrei

Re: Introducing vibe.d!

2012-04-26 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 4/26/12 3:30 PM, Jesse Phillips wrote: On Thursday, 26 April 2012 at 22:05:29 UTC, Robert Clipsham wrote: On 26/04/2012 21:46, Sönke Ludwig wrote: vibe.d This looks awesome! Also on reddit:

Re: Video: Generic Programming Galore using D @ Strange Loop 2011

2012-04-16 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 4/16/12 10:00 AM, Denis Shelomovskij wrote: 11.04.2012 20:23, Andrei Alexandrescu написал: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Generic-Programming-Galore-Using-D Andrei 27:17 It's valid to pass an empty list. Compilation will fail when T.length = 1 for 'x[1]'. Andrei is really looking

Re: Video: Andrei Alexandrescu at @ Lang.NEXT 2012

2012-04-12 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
/Lang-NEXT/Lang-NEXT-2012/Three-Unlikely-Successful-Features-of-D?format=html5 Thanks to Andrei Alexandrescu for this great presentation! Although I'm judging by the video alone, I feel you captivated the crowd quite well with this one :) Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/s66e8

Re: Video: Andrei Alexandrescu at @ Lang.NEXT 2012

2012-04-12 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
.msdn.com/Events/Lang-NEXT/Lang-NEXT-2012/Three-Unlikely-Successful-Features-of-D?format=html5 Thanks to Andrei Alexandrescu for this great presentation! Although I'm judging by the video alone, I feel you captivated the crowd quite well with this one :) The generalized palindrome doesn't work

Re: Video: Andrei Alexandrescu at @ Lang.NEXT 2012

2012-04-12 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
.msdn.com/Events/Lang-NEXT/Lang-NEXT-2012/Three-Unlikely-Successful-Features-of-D?format=html5 Thanks to Andrei Alexandrescu for this great presentation! Although I'm judging by the video alone, I feel you captivated the crowd quite well with this one :) The generalized palindrome doesn't work

Jonas Drewsen is a GSoC mentor!

2012-04-11 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
To many in this community Jonas needs no introduction. Jonas stepped up following our call to arms. Thanks, Jonas! Andrei

Jens Mueller is a GSoC mentor!

2012-04-11 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
Jens Mueller also responded to our request for mentors. He's a graduate student who also works as a Teaching Assistant, so he knows how to deal with them pesky students :o). Welcome aboard! Andrei

Russel Winder is a GSoC mentor!

2012-04-11 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
And last but not least... Russel Winder is now a GSoC mentor! Russel is an author, consultant, trainer, and sought-after speaker of tremendous expertise. We're very happy Russel has caught an interest in D, and even happier that he decided to ramp up his involvement by becoming a mentor.

Video: Generic Programming Galore using D @ Strange Loop 2011

2012-04-11 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Generic-Programming-Galore-Using-D Andrei

Re: Video: Generic Programming Galore using D @ Strange Loop 2011

2012-04-11 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 4/11/12 11:23 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Generic-Programming-Galore-Using-D Destroy on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/s4qul/infoq_generic_programming_galore_using_d_video/ Andrei

Re: Lang.NEXT panel on native languages

2012-04-11 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 4/11/12 11:28 AM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: On 4/11/12, Andrei Alexandrescuseewebsiteforem...@erdani.org wrote: On 4/10/12 3:39 PM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: On 4/10/12, deadalnixdeadal...@gmail.com wrote: Le 10/04/2012 07:46, Andrei Alexandrescu a écrit : http://channel9.msdn.com/Events

Re: Lang.NEXT panel on native languages

2012-04-11 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 4/11/12 5:04 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Walter's video is now online. http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Lang-NEXT/Lang-NEXT-2012/The-D-Programming-Language Please reddit. Destroy! http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/s5492/the_d_programming_language_walter_bright_langnext

We got 3 GSoC projects

2012-04-11 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
Hello, I am pleased to announce that the GSoC program granted three slots to our organization, same as last year. This is a good allocation and a testament of the good results of last year. However, unfortunately it also means we need to decline at least two excellent candidates; we've had

Re: Lang.NEXT panel on native languages

2012-04-10 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 4/10/12 3:39 PM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: On 4/10/12, deadalnixdeadal...@gmail.com wrote: Le 10/04/2012 07:46, Andrei Alexandrescu a écrit : http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Lang-NEXT/Lang-NEXT-2012/Panel-Native-Languages?format=html5 We want D talks ! 2 of them, but 0 online

Lang.NEXT panel on native languages

2012-04-09 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Lang-NEXT/Lang-NEXT-2012/Panel-Native-Languages?format=html5 Andrei

Re: I'll be in Seattle at Lang.NEXT

2012-04-08 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 4/8/12 11:31 AM, bearophile wrote: Andrei Alexandrescu: Slides are online: http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Lang-NEXT/Lang-NEXT-2012/Three-Unlikely-Successful-Features-of-D Putting the slides online before the talk is a very good idea, thank you. Page 31: the title of this slide is D

Re: I'll be in Seattle at Lang.NEXT

2012-04-07 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 3/15/12 10:39 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hello, Somewhat unexpectedly even to me, I'll be in Seattle for the Lang.NEXT conference together with Walter. Both of us will give talks. http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Lang-NEXT/Lang-NEXT-2012 Would be glad to redo a D Seattle meeting

Re: Russian TDPL is available for orders

2012-04-04 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 4/4/12 1:46 PM, Dmitry Olshansky wrote: Andrei, may I ask you what kind of memory you had in mind when refereed to mass storage in this statement of TDPL? Disk/SSD, not RAM. Andrei

OSCON 2012 session: Generic Programming Galore using D

2012-04-03 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
I'm glad to announce that OSCON 2012 (http://oscon.com/oscon2012) has approved my session proposal Generic Programming Galore using D. Hope to see many of you there! Andrei

Re: UFCS for D

2012-03-30 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 3/30/12 3:20 AM, Walter Bright wrote: There has been a trend in Phobos of having some truly gigantic modules. I believe this is indicative of a problem in the language. Andrei and I have talked about it, and we think it is because of difficulties in breaking a module up into submodules of a

Re: UFCS for D

2012-03-30 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 3/30/12 9:32 AM, deadalnix wrote: Le 30/03/2012 16:24, Andrei Alexandrescu a écrit : On 3/30/12 3:20 AM, Walter Bright wrote: There has been a trend in Phobos of having some truly gigantic modules. I believe this is indicative of a problem in the language. Andrei and I have talked about

UFCS for D

2012-03-28 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/rif9x/uniform_function_call_syntax_for_the_d/ Andrei

Adam Wilson is now a GSoC 2012 mentor!

2012-03-26 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
We're very happy and honored to had Adam Wilson on board as a GSoC 2012 mentor. Adam brings solid project management experience and has a specific interest in the Mono-D project. Please join me in welcoming Adam to the ranks of GSoC mentors! Thanks, Andrei

Re: avgtime - Small D util for your everyday benchmarking needs

2012-03-24 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 3/23/12 5:42 PM, Manfred Nowak wrote: Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: In the limit, taking the minimum over infinitely many measurements of X would yield T. True, if the thoretical variance of the distribution of T is close to zero. But horrible wrong, if T depends on an algorithm that is fast

Re: avgtime - Small D util for your everyday benchmarking needs

2012-03-23 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 3/23/12 12:51 AM, Manfred Nowak wrote: Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: You may want to also print the mode of the distribution, nontrivial but informative In case of this implementation and according to the given link: trivial and noninformative, because | For samples, if it is known

Re: avgtime - Small D util for your everyday benchmarking needs

2012-03-23 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 3/23/12 3:02 AM, Juan Manuel Cabo wrote: On Friday, 23 March 2012 at 05:16:20 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: [.] (man, the gaussian curve is everywhere, it never ceases to perplex me). I'm actually surprised. I'm working on benchmarking lately and the distributions I get are very

Re: avgtime - Small D util for your everyday benchmarking needs

2012-03-23 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 3/23/12 5:51 AM, Don Clugston wrote: No, it's easy. Student t is in std.mathspecial. Aargh, I didn't get around to copying it in. But this should do it. [snip] Shouldn't put this stuff in std.numeric, or create a std.stat module? I think also some functions for t-test would be useful.

Walter on reddit with an older article

2012-03-23 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/r9p4c/walter_bright_on_c_compilation_speed/ Andrei

Re: avgtime - Small D util for your everyday benchmarking needs

2012-03-22 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 3/21/12 7:32 PM, Juan Manuel Cabo wrote: avgtime -r 10 -q ls -lR /etc Total time (ms): 933.742 Repetitions : 10 Median time : 90.505 Avg time : 93.3742 Std dev. : 4.66808 Minimum : 88.732 Maximum : 101.225 Sweet! You may want to also print the mode of the

Re: avgtime - Small D util for your everyday benchmarking needs

2012-03-22 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 3/22/12 11:53 PM, Juan Manuel Cabo wrote: On Thursday, 22 March 2012 at 22:22:31 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Sweet! You may want to also print the mode of the distribution, which is the time of the maximum sample density. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mode_(statistics) (Warning

Re: Dejan Lekic created the D Developers Network on LinkedIn

2012-03-20 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 3/20/12 1:34 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Anyone using D in production is invited to join. http://www.linkedin.com/groups/D-Developer-Network Corrected link: http://linkedin.com/groups/D-Developer-Network-3923820 Andrei

Re: GDC goes github

2012-03-18 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 3/18/12 7:39 AM, Iain Buclaw wrote: I have created a new GDC project on github, where I hope people will help contribute and continue development of the compiler there. https://github.com/gdc-developers I've been told to cue Walter asking to rename the organisation to D-Programming-GDC.

Re: Pegged: Syntax Highlighting

2012-03-17 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 3/17/12 9:13 AM, Philippe Sigaud wrote: I want to use Pegged for that purpose. So go ahead an commit the D grammar ;) Would be so awesome if Pegged would be able to parse D. ~Extrawurst The D grammar is a 1000-line / hundreds of rules monster. I finished writing it and am now crushing

Re: Pegged: Syntax Highlighting

2012-03-17 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 3/17/12 3:53 PM, Philippe Sigaud wrote: On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 18:11, Andrei Alexandrescu seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org wrote: The D grammar is a 1000-line / hundreds of rules monster. I finished writing it and am now crushing bugs. God, that generates a 10_000 line module to parse it. I

It's official: The D Programming Language will participate to GSoC 2012!

2012-03-16 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
Just got the acceptance message. This is great news! If you consider being a mentor, please apply as described in http://dlang.org/gsoc2012.html. Thanks! Andrei

Re: It's official: The D Programming Language will participate to GSoC 2012!

2012-03-16 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 3/16/12 1:32 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: On Fri, 16 Mar 2012 14:24:38 -0400, Andrei Alexandrescu seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org wrote: Just got the acceptance message. This is great news! If you consider being a mentor, please apply as described in http://dlang.org/gsoc2012.html. Thanks

I'll be in Seattle at Lang.NEXT

2012-03-15 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
Hello, Somewhat unexpectedly even to me, I'll be in Seattle for the Lang.NEXT conference together with Walter. Both of us will give talks. http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Lang-NEXT/Lang-NEXT-2012 Would be glad to redo a D Seattle meeting. Regardless, the conference is interesting and free

Re: Pegged, a Parsing Expression Grammar (PEG) generator in D

2012-03-10 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 3/11/12 1:22 AM, Philippe Sigaud wrote: On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 00:34, Alex Rønne Petersenxtzgzo...@gmail.com wrote: Admittedly I have not heard of PEGs before, so I'm curious: Is this powerful enough to parse a language such as C? I think so. But you'd have to do add some semantic

Re: Pegged, a Parsing Expression Grammar (PEG) generator in D

2012-03-10 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 3/11/12 1:35 AM, Philippe Sigaud wrote: On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 08:26, Andrei Alexandrescu seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org wrote: Splitting on ; is trivial and makes client code considerably easier to play with. It's already implemented! No need for ';' Great! I think you'd be wise to add

Re: TDPL monthly sales at 12-month high

2012-03-07 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 3/7/12 1:26 AM, Bystroushaak wrote: Yeah, its great book, probably the best I've read about programming. On 27.2.2012 14:16, MattCodr wrote: I started reading this book a couple of days ago and one thing that I liked on this book, is not only about D, but about design and implementation

Re: TDPL monthly sales at 12-month high

2012-03-06 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 3/6/12 7:18 AM, Dejan Lekic wrote: Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Today TDPL monthly sales in February climbed to a 12-month high. This is in all likelihood due to the increasing attention D has received lately, and a reflection of all the great work done by our community. Congratulations

Re: parallel copy directory, faster than robocopy

2012-03-05 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 3/4/12 2:53 PM, Jay Norwood wrote: I placed the two parallel file operations, rmdir and copy on github in https://github.com/jnorwood/file_parallel These combine the std.parallelism operations with the std.file operations to speed up the processing on Windows. --- I also put a

Our second mentor: Alex Rønne Petersen

2012-03-04 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
Please join me in welcoming Alex Rønne Petersen as a mentor! We believe he will bring great expertise and value to our ranks. Andrei

Re: Our second mentor: Alex Rønne Petersen

2012-03-04 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 3/4/12 3:08 PM, deadalnix wrote: Le 04/03/2012 21:52, Andrei Alexandrescu a écrit : Please join me in welcoming Alex Rønne Petersen as a mentor! We believe he will bring great expertise and value to our ranks. Andrei What does that imply in practice ? You mean what a mentor's

Re: D in Academia

2012-03-03 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 3/3/12 1:02 PM, Chuck Allison wrote: FYI: TDPL is a required text for CS 4450, Analysis of Programming Languages, at Utah Valley University starting Fall 2012. We'll study ML and D (and Prolog if time allows). Great! Chuck, as discussed privately, feel free to address to the main forum

We have a GSoC mentor already: David Simcha

2012-03-02 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
David Simcha applied for a second gig as a GSoC mentor. Needless to say, his application was approved :o). Please join me in welcoming him! Andrei

Re: We have a GSoC mentor already: David Simcha

2012-03-02 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 3/2/12 6:31 PM, MattCodr wrote: On Friday, 2 March 2012 at 23:42:59 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: David Simcha applied for a second gig as a GSoC mentor. Needless to say, his application was approved :o). Please join me in welcoming him! Nice and good luck but... What app

Contract programming in D discussed on reddit

2012-03-02 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/qevy0/contract_programming_in_the_d_programming_language/ Andrei

Re: D to Javascript converter (a hacked up dmd)

2012-03-01 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 2/29/12 11:58 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: Sorry if I sent twice, it is so easy to hit the wrong button on things. On Wednesday, 29 February 2012 at 17:32:42 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: So the idea is to make an entire subset of D convertible to Javascript? Yeah, and I'm pretty much

Re: Mono-D 0.3.0

2012-02-29 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 2/29/12 10:21 AM, alex wrote: A couple of new completion features + several bugfixes - [Internal] Refactored and re-organized code structures, hopefully easier to maintain understand; Removal of unnecessary code - [Resolver] Implemented selective imports scoped importing - [Resolver]

Re: D to Javascript converter (a hacked up dmd)

2012-02-29 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 2/26/12 9:51 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: https://github.com/downloads/adamdruppe/dtojs/dtojs.zip [snip] That's interesting. So the idea is to make an entire subset of D convertible to Javascript? What use cases do you have in mind? Andrei

Re: TDPL monthly sales at 12-month high

2012-02-29 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 2/28/12 2:19 PM, deadalnix wrote: Is that by contract or because you don't know/want to tell numbers ? Some of both. Sales information is traditionally guarded closely and only disclosed on terrific numbers (e.g. one million readers etc). Also, I don't have data outside Amazon, and on

TDPL monthly sales at 12-month high

2012-02-26 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
Today TDPL monthly sales in February climbed to a 12-month high. This is in all likelihood due to the increasing attention D has received lately, and a reflection of all the great work done by our community. Congratulations to all contributors! Andrei

You crapper encounter...

2012-02-25 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
Had a good chuckle: http://buztech.org/read-d-programming-ebooks-lesson-1-getting-started.html Andrei

Re: GoingNative 6: The D Episode with Walter Bright and Andrei Alexandrescu

2012-02-24 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 2/23/12 10:06 PM, Jeff Nowakowski wrote: On 02/23/2012 11:57 AM, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote: I still cannot fathom how the Scala guys thought using the JVM was a good idea. It gave them a good garbage collector (an area that has held D's performance back for years) And still is,

Re: GoingNative 6: The D Episode with Walter Bright and Andrei Alexandrescu

2012-02-21 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 2/21/12 6:39 PM, Walter Bright wrote: http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/C9-GoingNative/GoingNative-6-The-D-Episode-with-Walter-Bright-and-Andrei-Alexandrescu On reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/q09su/c9goingnative_6_the_d_episode_with_walter_bright/ Andrei

Please try rdmd on large projects

2012-02-20 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
Hello, I just submitted (https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/tools/commit/c77b870fdc5674d7434b03d1767ba831eaac25b1) a change to rdmd that runs one thread per stat when comparing file dates, using David's excellent std.parallelism. In my experiment the change introduces no additional

Re: D forums now live!

2012-02-14 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 2/14/12 4:00 PM, Walter Bright wrote: http://forum.dlang.org/ This should replace the old miserable web interface to the forums. Thanks to Vladimir Panteleev for an awesome job writing this! On reddit:

Re: dmd 1.073 and 2.058 release

2012-02-14 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 2/14/12 10:47 PM, Walter Bright wrote: Anyone care to count up the number of bug fixes here? http://www.digitalmars.com/d/1.0/changelog.html http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.1.073.zip http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/changelog.html

Re: 4x speedup of recursive rmdir in std.file

2012-02-05 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 2/5/12 10:16 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: Jay Norwoodj...@prismnet.com wrote in message news:jgm5vh$hbe$1...@digitalmars.com... == Quote from Nick Sabalausky (a@a.a)'s article Interesting. How does it perform when just running on one core? The library without the threads is 1 min 5 secs

Re: 4x speedup of recursive rmdir in std.file

2012-02-05 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 2/5/12 3:04 PM, Jay Norwood wrote: I can tell you that there are a couple of seconds improvement in the execution time running 16 threads vs 8 on the i7 on the ssd drive, so we aren't keeping all the cores busy with 8 threads. I suppose they are all blocked waiting for file system operations

Re: Tango for D2: All user modules ported

2012-02-01 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 1/31/12 8:59 PM, SiegeLord wrote: Hello everyone, Just wanted to put out an announcement with a progress report on porting effort of Tango. For those that don't know what it is, Tango is a framework library that used to be/is the de facto standard library of D1. This is awesome. Thanks for

Re: Tango for D2: All user modules ported

2012-02-01 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/p5xzk/tango_library_for_d2_initial_port_finished/ Andrei

GoingNative 2012 to be livestreamed tomorrow

2012-02-01 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
I'm announcing this here because inevitably D will be mentioned during the panel with Bjarne Stroustrup, Herb Sutter, Hans Boehm, and myself. See you online! http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/p71w6/goingnative_2012_livestreamed_for_free_feb_23/ Andrei

Server-Side magazine interview, touches on D

2012-01-29 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
http://www.serversidemagazine.com/news/10-questions-with-facebook-research-engineer-andrei-alexandrescu/ Andrei

Re: Server-Side magazine interview, touches on D

2012-01-29 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 1/29/12 4:34 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: http://www.serversidemagazine.com/news/10-questions-with-facebook-research-engineer-andrei-alexandrescu/ Should have looked first, it's on reddit already. Please vote up :o). http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/p229i

Re: A tutorial on D templates: updates

2012-01-29 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 1/29/12 2:44 PM, Philippe Sigaud wrote: Hello, I posted there a few weeks ago about a tutorial on D templates I put in github: https://github.com/PhilippeSigaud/D-templates-tutorial/blob/master/dtemplates.pdf Since then, I received numerous mails, issues, advices and thanks. Thank to you

Re: Modern COM Programming in D

2012-01-25 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 1/24/12 9:10 PM, Walter Bright wrote: On 1/24/2012 5:07 PM, Lionello Lunesu wrote: Done: http://lunesu.com/uploads/ModernCOMProgramminginD.pdf Added to interface.html http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/ow7qc/modern_com_programming_in_d/ Andrei

Re: http://dlang.org/bugstats.php

2012-01-22 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 1/22/12 1:55 AM, Daniel Murphy wrote: The bugzilla links up the top don't work for me. Do they work now? Are you inculding dups in the resolved count? Everything with the status RESOLVED, so I think so. Andrei

Re: update.sh

2012-01-16 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 1/16/12 1:18 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2012-01-16 06:20, Nick Sabalausky wrote: Andrei Alexandrescuseewebsiteforem...@erdani.org wrote in message news:jevr6q$8vp$1...@digitalmars.com... I just added a handy script, tools/update.sh.

Re: update.sh

2012-01-16 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 1/16/12 3:02 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: A large list of dependencies?? The only runtime dependency is zlib. That's in the case we want to include it in tools/. Andrei

Re: update.sh

2012-01-16 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 1/16/12 5:46 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: I don't mean to say that your tool is bad or that you shouldn't have made it, but the issues you addressed with DVM can be fixed, and really, I've been detecting a bit of NIH coming from your general direction. I've noticed that any time you want

Re: DMD 2.x compiler in Arch Linux repo

2012-01-16 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 1/16/12 2:05 PM, Михаил Страшун wrote: Are there any negative consequences of doing this? :) Sorry, I know close to nothing about reddit. The news must be noteworthy. My question is basically Is this an interesting piece of news, or something minor? Andrei

Re: A tutorial on D templates

2012-01-14 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 1/14/12 3:04 PM, Philippe Sigaud wrote: On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 21:07, Andrei Alexandrescu seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org wrote: On 1/14/12 5:21 AM, Philippe Sigaud wrote: Uh, I don't think it'll ever be a book. I didn't write it with a book in mind. It's organized as a book (TOC, index

Re: A tutorial on D templates

2012-01-14 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 1/14/12 6:54 PM, Georg Wrede wrote: On 01/14/2012 08:45 PM, Walter Bright wrote: On 1/14/2012 7:05 AM, Jeff Nowakowski wrote: On 01/14/2012 03:16 AM, Walter Bright wrote: Minor stylistic nit pet peeve of mine: please remove the word you and your from the prose. That sounds a bit strict,

Native OSX/64 codegen: Complex code, incomprehensible documentation, what's not to like?

2011-12-27 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/nsj7d/native_osx64_codegen_complex_code/ Andrei

Re: Downloading dmd.2.057.zip

2011-12-23 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 12/22/11 10:06 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Friday, 23 December 2011 at 04:01:28 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: For those where the download speed from the Digital Mars server is too slow: https://github.com/downloads/D-Programming-Language/dmd/dmd.2.057.zip I'm seeing a 10x speed

Re: New homepage design of d-p-l.org is now live. eom

2011-12-14 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 12/12/11 7:46 PM, Stewart Gordon wrote: On 06/12/2011 05:44, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: http://d-p-l.org Andrei Why does it have an HTML 4.01 doctype but then go on to use XHTML syntax??? Stewart. I wouldn't know. What needs to be done? Andrei

Re: dmd 2.057 release

2011-12-14 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 12/14/11 1:44 AM, Walter Bright wrote: On 12/13/2011 11:18 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2011-12-14 08:09, Bernard Helyer wrote: Changelog isn't showing up for me. Same here, latest change log is 2.056, which is empty. Andrei's working on uploading it. Sorry about the delay. Yah,

Re: dmd 2.057 release

2011-12-14 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 12/14/11 1:05 AM, Walter Bright wrote: Highlights are use of XMM floating point registers in 64 bit targets, and now supporting OS X 64 as a target. http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/changelog.html http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.2.057.zip A lot of people put a ton of effort into making this

Re: ldc new feature

2011-12-08 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 12/8/11 6:52 AM, bioinfornatics wrote: Dear, I am pleased to announce the new features. LDC is now offering the flag-shared-lib and libraries to create static and dynamic. The latest version of ldc works with llvm 3.0 and uses dmdfe 2056. The project ldc sees increased the number of

Re: New homepage design of d-p-l.org is now live. eom

2011-12-06 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 12/6/11 12:19 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: Andrei Alexandrescuseewebsiteforem...@erdani.org wrote in message news:jbka3d$2r2m$2...@digitalmars.com... http://d-p-l.org Nice, but a little reminder that the See Example links are still totally broken without JS. Should be easy to fix. May want

New homepage design of d-p-l.org is now live. eom

2011-12-05 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
http://d-p-l.org Andrei

Re: GoingNative 2012

2011-11-28 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 11/28/11 12:55 PM, Bill Baxter wrote: On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Walter Bright newshou...@digitalmars.com mailto:newshou...@digitalmars.com wrote: On 11/25/2011 4:46 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I'll give a talk at GoingNative 2012 (http://www.reddit.com/r

GoingNative 2012

2011-11-25 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
I'll give a talk at GoingNative 2012 (http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/momge/goingnative_2012/) at Microsoft in Seattle. Registration is $112. If you're coming, I'd be glad to participate to a D dinner. If there's enough of us, Charles Torre (the conference organizer who has a keen

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