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Re:Circle – A C++ compiler with compile-time imperative meta... by orbifold on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @03:55AM (#23088792)
There is basically no way to modify clang or GCC to support executing arbitrary C++ code at compile time. Something like that would be a fork that wouldn’t get accepted upstream. According to the author the compiler front end is ~100kLoc which is an order of magnitude less than what clang is.

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