• dennis luehring (9/9) Aug 06 2004 just a question:
• Ilya Minkov (22/31) Aug 06 2004 That would be somewhat... urgh well, as i understand it, problematic,

dennis luehring <dl.soluz gmx.net> writes:

just a question:

when will be the D compiler complete D based?

...a good example for the D power ;-)...

and will there be the feature to import the D compiler directly in my 
projects (like javas system.compiler)?

...for example i've got an basic-like-syntax which is transformed to
real C++ code and then compiled for running inside my project with full 
speed...

ciao dennis

Ilya Minkov <minkov cs.tum.edu> writes:

dennis luehring schrieb:

 just a question:
 
 when will be the D compiler complete D based?

That would be somewhat... urgh well, as i understand it, problematic, 
since digitalmars back-end looks like it is in C++ and it's 
closed-source. It might be for some legal reason, but even otherwise 
it's just understandable.

However, Walter said once it would be cool to have a compiler frontend 
written in D. Since GCC backend is C-based, it is possible, but i'm 
afraid the code generator is not very fast, even if it can produce some 
good code.

 ...a good example for the D power ;-)...

More a proof of concept...

 and will there be the feature to import the D compiler directly in my 
 projects (like javas system.compiler)?

Noone knows. What i could imagine and would be nice, would be a 
scripting engine using D as a scripting language, then i guess you'd 
have an even more powerful interface. About what sort of execution 
engine it should have - i don't know. One could do an interpreter, or 
attach a jump-table compiler, or a JIT compiler (like MONO) with time.

I'd keep my eye on mono, i believe its backend might get quite good, as 
far as their outline says. I had suggested a way to implement lazy 
compilation without performance loss in their mailing list, but i 
don'tknow whether that's gonna happen.

 ...for example i've got an basic-like-syntax which is transformed to
 real C++ code and then compiled for running inside my project with full 
 speed...

If you may requiere user to have DMD handy, you can simply output the 
files and use it.

-eye