On 09 May 2016 19:01, "Stefan Koch via Digitalmars-d-announce" < digitalmars-d- announce@ puremagic.com> wrote: > > Hi Guys, > > I have been looking into the DMD now to see what I can do about CTFE. > Unfortunately It is a pretty big mess to untangle. > Code responsible for CTFE is in at least 3 files. > [dinterpret.d, ctfeexpr.d, constfold.d] > I was shocked to discover that the PowExpression actually depends on phobos! (depending on the exact codePath it may or may not compile...) > which let to me prematurely stating that it worked at ctfe [ http:// forum. dlang.org/ thread/ ukcoibejff inknrbzktv@ forum. dlang.org ] > > My Plan is as follows. > > Add a new file for my ctfe-interpreter and update it gradually to take more and more of the cases the code in the files mentioned above was used for. > > Do Dataflow analysis on the code that is to be ctfe'd so we can tell beforehand if we need to store state in the ctfe stack or not. > > Or baring proper data-flow analysis: RefCouting the variables on the ctfe-stack could also be a solution. > > I will post more details as soon as I dive deeper into the code. > > Will be awesome. Particularly if you document the workings of ctfe, might make a great set of articles for a blog.