Bootstrapping issue. Make is almost guaranteed to exist, while the fancier tools are not.
Sent from my iPhone On Apr 26, 2011, at 5:50 AM, Russel Winder <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 2011-04-26 at 08:32 -0400, dsimcha wrote: > [ . . . ] > >> Soon. I'm praying that I can figure out makefiles in that time to check >> std.parallelism in, since I think they're harder to work with than >> multithreading. (Ok, I'm exaggerating.) Among the other major >> improvements in this release: > > Isn't Make 1970s technology, I'd have thought D would use more > up-to-date build technology than that -- even though Go uses it and > refuses to look at other options. > >> std.net.isemail >> >> massive GC optimizations for large allocations (~25% for very small ones >> to several hundred fold for huge ones) >> >> core.cpuid works on 64-bit > > I guess this is still assembler level stuff though, and hence the code > is not portable? > >> temporary object destruction >> >> massive amounts of CTFE fixes > > -- > Russel. > ============================================================================= > Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:[email protected] > 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: [email protected] > London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder
