On Friday, 1 March 2013 at 08:55:22 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
On 03/01/2013 07:48 AM, Marco Leise wrote:
Am Thu, 28 Feb 2013 18:44:31 +0100
schrieb Timon Gehr <[email protected]>:
* wc -l reveals that the DMD front end source code is roughly
30 to 40
times larger than it should be for what it does in my opinion.
That can only mean that you don't really know what it does in
my opinion.
I guess it (almost) implements the language. :)
Sure such a large code base accumulates duplicates
since not everybody knows about all helper functions or copy
and paste was the least intrusive bug fix somewhere, but you
don't really believe that 94% of the front end are
unnecessary, do you?
I believe it is bloated. Maybe it's partly because it is
written in C++.
...
I have to go with Marco. What is the usual bloat factor between
C++ and D ? 2x at most ? Unless you found some super efficient
way of writing a complex grammar, I don't see a reason there
could be such a large difference.
In fact, for this kind of program, I am not even sure the D code
will be much smaller than the C++ one overall.
