On Tuesday, 23 October 2012 at 16:30:41 UTC, Benjamin Thaut wrote:
Here a small update:
I found a piece of code that did manually slow down the
simulation in case it got to fast. This code never kicked in
with the GC version, because it never reached the margin. The
manual memory managed
On Tuesday, 11 September 2012 at 10:28:29 UTC, bearophile wrote:
SomeDude:
It's a bad solution imho. Monitoring the druntime and hunting
every part that allocates until our codebase is correct like
Benjamen Thaut is a much better solution
Why do you think such hunt is better than letting
On Wednesday, 24 October 2012 at 12:21:03 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
Having dealt with systems programming in languages with GC
(Native Oberon, Modula-3), I wonder how much an optional GC
would really matter, if D's GC had better performance.
--
Paulo
Well, performnce is only part of the GC
On Wednesday, 24 October 2012 at 21:02:34 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
So I always take the assertions that manual memory management
is a must with a grain of salt.
--
Paulo
Probably no one in here is thinking that we should not have a GC.
I'm sure that many applications will benefit from a GC,
On Thursday, 25 October 2012 at 02:15:41 UTC, Jakob Ovrum wrote:
You can very much link to C and C++ code, or have C and C++
code link to your D code, while still using the GC, you just
have to be careful when you send GC memory to external code.
You can even share the same GC between
On Thursday, 25 October 2012 at 08:50:19 UTC, Jakob Ovrum wrote:
You are right that compiling the runtime itself (druntime and
Phobos) as a shared library is not yet fully realized, but that
doesn't stop you from compiling your own libraries and
applications as shared libraries even if they
On Thursday, 25 October 2012 at 02:15:41 UTC, Jakob Ovrum wrote:
You can even share the same GC between dynamic libraries and
the host application (if both are D and use GC, of course)
using the GC proxy system.
What is the GC proxy system, and how do I make use of it?
--rt
On Friday, 26 October 2012 at 14:21:51 UTC, bearophile wrote:
But in the main() I have also had to use a deprecated delete,
because otherwise the GC doesn't deallocate the arrays and the
program burns all the memory (setting the array to null and
using GC.collect() isn't enough). This is not
On Friday, 26 October 2012 at 23:10:48 UTC, bearophile wrote:
Rob T:
Is this happening with dmd 2.060 as released?
I'm using 2.061alpha git head, but I guess the situation is the
same with dmd 2.060. The code is linked in my post, so trying
it is easy, it's one small module.
Bye
On Saturday, 27 October 2012 at 01:03:57 UTC, Rob T wrote:
On Friday, 26 October 2012 at 23:10:48 UTC, bearophile wrote:
Rob T:
Is this happening with dmd 2.060 as released?
I'm using 2.061alpha git head, but I guess the situation is
the same with dmd 2.060. The code is linked in my post
On Saturday, 27 October 2012 at 01:03:57 UTC, Rob T wrote:
On Friday, 26 October 2012 at 23:10:48 UTC, bearophile wrote:
Rob T:
Is this happening with dmd 2.060 as released?
I'm using 2.061alpha git head, but I guess the situation is
the same with dmd 2.060. The code is linked in my post
On Tuesday, 9 October 2012 at 21:31:48 UTC, bearophile wrote:
use statements are converted to one or more alias' and
namespaces to (mixin) templates.
But what are they useful for?
Namespaces can be useful for organizational reasons. For example
they can be used for grouping a collection of
On Wednesday, 31 October 2012 at 06:59:45 UTC, Sönke Ludwig
wrote:
Changes:
- New HTML form interface generator similar to the REST
interface
generator that simplifies web front end development:
http://vibed.org/api/vibe.http.form/registerFormInterface
(thanks to Robert Klotzner aka
On Wednesday, 31 October 2012 at 16:19:01 UTC, Sönke Ludwig
wrote:
Am 31.10.2012 17:11, schrieb Rob T:
On Wednesday, 31 October 2012 at 06:59:45 UTC, Sönke Ludwig
wrote:
Changes:
- New HTML form interface generator similar to the REST
interface
generator that simplifies web front end
On Thursday, 1 November 2012 at 19:23:49 UTC, Jacob Carlborg
wrote:
On 2012-11-01 19:53, Rob T wrote:
I know that the druntime will not link as-is without a rebuild
to enable
PIC, so have you found this to be a problem, not using shared
libs, or
have you rebuilt druntime to allow
On Friday, 2 November 2012 at 11:27:22 UTC, Sönke Ludwig wrote:
Am 01.11.2012 19:53, schrieb Rob T:
I would like to have/add std.concurrency style message passing
on top
though, as that sometimes is actually quite convenient and of
course
it's also a very safe way to handle communication
On Tuesday, 13 November 2012 at 00:05:45 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
Le 12/11/2012 11:18, Walter Bright a écrit :
http://www.csail.mit.edu/events/eventcalendar/calendar.php?show=eventid=3531
As usual, will it be recorded ?
When I first found out about D, I watched a recording from a
conference,
On Tuesday, 13 November 2012 at 06:05:12 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic
wrote:
On 11/13/12, Rob T r...@ucora.com wrote:
Links to the recordings and notable articles on this webpage
would of course be useful too.
http://prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?Videos
Hopefully that page gets significantly larger
On Sunday, 18 November 2012 at 17:51:25 UTC, Peter Alexander
wrote:
I get the feeling that the C++ standards committee was formed
to serve Boost developers.
Not that this means anything sinister represents a conflict of
interest, but ...
http://www.boost.org/users/faq.html
Is there a
On Friday, 30 November 2012 at 07:31:51 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
On 2012-11-30 08:31, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
As 1100110 said, if you install ia32-libs it will work. I
compiled it on
Debian 6 64bit.
That is, you can download the 32bit version of DVM.
OK thanks, I was just checking to make
I get a few compilation errors using dmd 2.060,
nothrow that can throw, pure that calls impure, as well as
several warnings such as unreachable code and warnings concerning
@safe and @trusted.
After patching some of it up to get rid of the fatal compile
errors, this last error left me
On Saturday, 22 December 2012 at 00:48:51 UTC, Kiith-Sa wrote:
Are you sure you cloned ICE, not DPong?
DPong was an older project that is unmaintained; although ICE
reuses
some of its code.
ICE is developed with 2.060 and there're no compile errors there
(although there are some warnings due
On Monday, 7 January 2013 at 22:21:59 UTC, Chris wrote:
Another thing, IMO, is that there is an overemphasis on C++ vs.
D. Usually people have to choose between systems programming
(learn C/C++) or high level (learn Python, Ruby etc.). Most
non-programmers who need to write a piece of software
On Tuesday, 15 January 2013 at 20:02:58 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 1/14/2013 10:30 PM, Rob T wrote:
A really important advantage that scripting languages provides
that D does not
currently provide, is direct runtime interpretation of the
language. This is
very important for the use cases
On Tuesday, 22 January 2013 at 03:00:59 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
The sane option are either to acknowledge that code is in a
text file and choose syntax construct that make it readable
(python) or decorrelate the presentation of the code from its
actual form in the file and use a formatted.
Out
On Friday, 1 February 2013 at 19:27:11 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
On 02/01/2013 11:12 AM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
On 2/1/13, Ali Çehreliacehr...@yahoo.com wrote:
I have continued with the translation of the book.
Very cool!
Btw, a section from the book:
// Do not use the older syntax:
On Sunday, 3 February 2013 at 21:05:57 UTC, Peter Alexander wrote:
On Sunday, 3 February 2013 at 18:24:05 UTC, Dejan Lekic wrote:
Welcome to reality Bearophile!!!
In real projects people do the job as best as they can at the
moment, and they probably, and with right, do not care what
people
It would be nice to know why she choose D.
Possibly the reason is because she wanted to write code quickly,
which is one of the advantages that D is supposed to provide over
some other languages.
--rt
On Thursday, 7 February 2013 at 20:16:03 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
No, I can't say who it is at this time. Sorry. But it is a huge
opportunity for us.
To get the design win, we need to:
(a) get dynamic linking and loading to work
(b) improve language safety without degrading efficiency
(c)
The compiler currently has an option -shared for generating a
shared library. It also has an option -fPIC for generating
position independent code.
If option -shared is selected, will it automatically generate as
PIC, or do you have to also specify -fPIC?
--rt
On Saturday, 16 March 2013 at 14:42:58 UTC, Suliman wrote:
Hi folks! I had wrote small article about Rust vs D. I hope
that you will like it!
http://versusit.org/rust-vs-d
I agree, only Rust seems to compete with D for the goal as being
a real alternative to C/C++. Interesting read
There was a fair amount of talk in the general discussion forum
about automatically converting the dmd C sources into D, so there
may be some advice or ideas in there that may apply, although
perhaps the biggest difficulty is that the Bullet API is C++ not
C.
Just a wild thought and probably
On Thursday, 9 May 2013 at 05:15:46 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
On Thu, 09 May 2013 02:07:12 +0200
Rob T al...@ucora.com wrote:
It would be even better if the torrent contained the original
video. Is it available for download somewhere?
No, not unless Andrei puts it somewhere. I'm still
On Thursday, 9 May 2013 at 07:12:42 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
On Thu, 09 May 2013 08:46:01 +0200
Rob T al...@ucora.com wrote:
Here's another FF addon for video downloading (and files too),
it works for me quite well.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-downloadhelper
On Wednesday, 29 May 2013 at 21:23:26 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
On 5/29/13 5:07 PM, Rob T wrote:
On Wednesday, 29 May 2013 at 09:15:49 UTC, Jacob Carlborg
wrote:
On 2013-05-29 09:54, Wolfgang Mayer wrote:
Hi! The suppposed link to the Windows installer version DMD
2.063
acutally
loads
Awesome job to all contributors, it's looking much better, and
yes the change log with examples is a very noticeable part of the
improvement.
I noted some comments about the server being under too much load.
Any thought put into adding an official torrent for downloads?
That may help ease up
On Thursday, 30 May 2013 at 22:04:07 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
On 5/30/13, Andrei Alexandrescu seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org
wrote:
Hello,
We seem to have a regression affecting the zipped release:
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=10215
But I can't recreate this in git-head.
On Friday, 31 May 2013 at 01:36:15 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
That's more-or-less what already happens, the only difference
is that
(to my knowledge) there's no link to it on the downloads page.
Although, we probably could use more time between all known
regressions
in beta fixed and the
On Friday, 31 May 2013 at 14:08:17 UTC, Leandro Lucarella wrote:
About this, AFAIK 2.063.1 is really what's in the release, but
the
binary version number (and the zip name) have only 2.063. I
think that
should be fixed and the real version number should be present
in both
downloadables and
On Saturday, 8 June 2013 at 22:55:20 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 6/8/2013 2:23 PM, bearophile wrote:
- D integer types have guaranteed sizes, but
they're not obvious from the name
- Why not have int8, uint8, int32, uint32, etc. in
default namespace, encourage their use?
I agree. It's hard
This build system seems to be very well suited for building
complex large projects in a sensible way.
I successfully tested the example build on Debian linux. I will
definitely explore this further using one of my own projects.
One issue I immediately ran into, is when I run bub incorrectly
On Thursday, 27 June 2013 at 23:03:40 UTC, Graham St Jack wrote:
This isn't a build tool for everyone, but it really does make a
big
difference on big projects.
Well I'm noticing some interesting concepts, such as being able
to associate an include or import file with the library to link
There are many cases where you do not know in advance what type
of data is being received through an interface to some other
system. This happens with some databases, and with messaging
systems, and if you are interfacing to any dynamically or weakly
typed language, such as with js/json.
I
On Friday, 5 July 2013 at 23:04:28 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
Maybe, but that would still be limited to a list of types. What
would be ideal is if alias this or opImplicitCast existed, or
implicit constructors like C++ has for function calls and
could be a template:
T get(T)() { ...}
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