Re: Ali's talk C++Now 2017: Competitive Advantage with D on Reddit!
On Friday, 9 June 2017 at 05:07:37 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: On 06/08/2017 01:39 AM, Walter Bright wrote: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/6fz3yh/cnow_2017_competitive_advantage_with_d/ Can someone verify and make corrections to my response to LordJebbs please: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/6fz3yh/cnow_2017_competitive_advantage_with_d/dinumey/ Thank you, Ali Indeed, there is no special thread. I'd say for the more relaxed reddit audience it can be put like this: the GC isn't "running" at all. Not persistently, not at all times, not in any special thread. It is not actively scanning anything. Any allocation on GC heap made by *any* thread *may* cause a collection, which is performed there and then in the same thread that triggered said allocation, and is observed as part of that allocation. All registered threads except the one that triggered the allocation (and thus, collection) are paused for scanning and resumed afterwards. Threads not registered with the runtime or those that were explicitly detached from the runtime are expected to not hold any pointers to the GC heap, and are neither paused nor scanned.
Re: Ali's talk C++Now 2017: Competitive Advantage with D on Reddit!
On 06/08/2017 01:39 AM, Walter Bright wrote: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/6fz3yh/cnow_2017_competitive_advantage_with_d/ Can someone verify and make corrections to my response to LordJebbs please: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/6fz3yh/cnow_2017_competitive_advantage_with_d/dinumey/ Thank you, Ali
Re: Compile-Time Sort in D
On Friday, 9 June 2017 at 01:34:14 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: On Thursday, 8 June 2017 at 19:07:50 UTC, cym13 wrote: Seeing that the one and only D example in the nim article is a broken one (using static instead of enum or static immutable for 'b') we should have started with a correct example before showing the broken one... Good to know for next time. static variables are initialized with compile-time values. They don't need be immutable for that. they need immutable if you want to use them again at compile-time. Therefore it is a good habit to get into.
Re: Compile-Time Sort in D
On Thursday, 8 June 2017 at 19:07:50 UTC, cym13 wrote: Seeing that the one and only D example in the nim article is a broken one (using static instead of enum or static immutable for 'b') we should have started with a correct example before showing the broken one... Good to know for next time. static variables are initialized with compile-time values. They don't need be immutable for that.
mysql-native v1.1.0 - small bugfix update
mysql-native is a native D client driver for MySQL/MariaDB. It works with or without Vibe.d. Small bugfix update: - Fixed: #99: Update dub.sdl to allow vibe-d 0.8.* releases. - Fixed: #111: NEWDECIMAL type returns the wrong value. Since this type is intended as arbitrary precision, the server itself sends it as a string. In order to avoid unexpected loss of precision, mysql-native does not attempt to convert the string to a floating-point type. If conversion to floating point is required, users can simply pass the string to Phobos's to!real.
Vittorio Romeo comments on his D impressions at C++Now 2017
Vittorio is a new friend who I met at C++Now 2017. He is also the author of a DIP on "Value closures": https://github.com/SuperV1234/DIPs/blob/master/DIPs/DIP.md I'm happy that he talks favorably of D during the following chat (you should continue watching him till the end until he gives the microphone away (not when he first attempts to give it away)): https://youtu.be/QsYuEsZVy3I?t=994 Some more here: https://youtu.be/QsYuEsZVy3I?t=2209 Some of the other participants talk about appreciating the "other language" keynotes as well. Ali
Re: Ali's talk C++Now 2017: Competitive Advantage with D on Reddit!
On 6/8/17 5:03 PM, Wulfklaue wrote: On Thursday, 8 June 2017 at 20:38:33 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: That link doesn't work for me. Besides, I've heard that it's better not to click through a link as HN either rates it lower or flags it as spam. Not sure though, I'm just contributing to cargo cult... :) Ali Removed the old one and add new one with the full youtube link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14517183 Posting direct HN links in any forum is a sure way to have the entry classified as spam (HN uses an algorithm that flags as spam many accesses that do not have their own site as referrer). -- Andrei
Re: Ali's talk C++Now 2017: Competitive Advantage with D on Reddit!
On 06/08/2017 02:03 PM, Wulfklaue wrote: Removed the old one and add new one with the full youtube link: That worked. Thanks. I recommend others not to click on the link but search for "competitive advantage with d" on the main page instead: https://news.ycombinator.com/news Ali
Re: Ali's talk C++Now 2017: Competitive Advantage with D on Reddit!
On Thursday, 8 June 2017 at 20:38:33 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: That link doesn't work for me. Besides, I've heard that it's better not to click through a link as HN either rates it lower or flags it as spam. Not sure though, I'm just contributing to cargo cult... :) Ali Removed the old one and add new one with the full youtube link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14517183
Re: Ali's talk C++Now 2017: Competitive Advantage with D on Reddit!
On Thursday, 8 June 2017 at 20:38:33 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: On 06/08/2017 01:29 PM, Wulfklaue wrote: That link doesn't work for me. Besides, I've heard that it's better not to click through a link as HN either rates it lower or flags it as spam. Not sure though, I'm just contributing to cargo cult... :) Ali Strange because its the same link that was used in the reddit topic. Its just Belgium Youtube link ( owned by Google in the whois, so fairly sure its official :) ).
Re: Ali's talk C++Now 2017: Competitive Advantage with D on Reddit!
On 06/08/2017 01:29 PM, Wulfklaue wrote: On Thursday, 8 June 2017 at 08:39:58 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/6fz3yh/cnow_2017_competitive_advantage_with_d/ Added to Hacker News ... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14516927 That link doesn't work for me. Besides, I've heard that it's better not to click through a link as HN either rates it lower or flags it as spam. Not sure though, I'm just contributing to cargo cult... :) Ali
Re: Ali's talk C++Now 2017: Competitive Advantage with D on Reddit!
On Thursday, 8 June 2017 at 08:39:58 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/6fz3yh/cnow_2017_competitive_advantage_with_d/ Added to Hacker News ... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14516927
Re: Compile-Time Sort in D
On 06/08/2017 09:07 PM, cym13 wrote: Seeing that the one and only D example in the nim article is a broken one (using static instead of enum or static immutable for 'b') we should have started with a correct example before showing the broken one... Good to know for next time. Broken? It works just fine.
Re: Compile-Time Sort in D
On Wednesday, 7 June 2017 at 21:47:58 UTC, John Carter wrote: On Monday, 5 June 2017 at 14:23:34 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: https://dlang.org/blog/2017/06/05/compile-time-sort-in-d/ Seems like you have inspired people... http://blog.zdsmith.com/posts/compiletime-sort-in-nim.html Seeing that the one and only D example in the nim article is a broken one (using static instead of enum or static immutable for 'b') we should have started with a correct example before showing the broken one... Good to know for next time.
Ali's talk C++Now 2017: Competitive Advantage with D on Reddit!
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/6fz3yh/cnow_2017_competitive_advantage_with_d/
