On Tuesday, 7 April 2015 at 00:57:09 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote:
CTFE could have some pretty awesome applications for embedded I
suspect. After all, you can pregenerate data structures ext.
For faster execution.
Yes, they're particularly useful for embedded devices.
I've often used tables in assembly language in this regard.
-Things that seem to be impossible, because the normal approach
is to "write optimized code" suddenly becomes possible, when
optimizing (rearranging) the data to fit the hardware.
I don't think anybody has toyed with this yet.
With D, advanced table-generation will become much easier.
I bet I'm one of those people, who will have a lot of fun using
this feature. ;)
