On 02/04/16 18:53, ixid via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: > On Thursday, 4 February 2016 at 17:34:33 UTC, Artur Skawina wrote: >> On 02/04/16 16:32, Artur Skawina wrote: >> but that seems too expensive, when the use is just in toy programs and >> debugging. > > I hadn't really considered the relative cost-benefit, it's just a habit to > try to hardcode things at compile time. =) It certainly seems to make sense > to do it that way.
Just to clarify -- *all* versions work at CT; the static-foreach will be unrolled at CT, and the mixin argument will be fully evaluated at CT too. The only difference is in a) readability, b) the `write` template instantiations (and potential re-use). Using the std lib `write*` templates has a huge cost; for any kind of /real/ programs, that care about performance at all, they are better avoided. (But it probably doesn't matter if you already heavily rely on GC and don't print much, other than that they add tons of code to the executable) artur
