On Thursday, 1 August 2013 at 20:59:31 UTC, Stewart Gordon wrote:
Along these lines, I'm thinking of making a few more changes:
- Just use the D const pointer syntax where we need it, rather
than this CPtr template that was made for D1 compatibility.
- Declare all constants as enums, in order to force inlining.
+1 on both. When I dropped D1 support from Derelict, this is
exactly what I did.
- Define a mixin template along the lines of __AW in newer
versions of MinGW, so that
version (Unicode) {
alias QwertW Qwert;
} else {
alias QwertA Qwert;
}
can become simply
mixin DECLARE_AW!("Qwert");
I would be cautious about doing this. I know that multiple string
mixins can have a noticeable impact on compile time. I don't know
if that holds to the same scale for template mixins, but given
the size of the Win32 bindings I would want to be sure before
implementing it. I would want to make compile time a top
priority. If everyone were always compiling the bindings as a
library, it wouldn't be such a concern. But when using build
tools which compile imports along with the app source, it can
become an issue.
