Porting 58000 lines of D and C++ to jai, Part 0: Why and How

Re:Porting 58000 lines of D and C++ to jai, Part 0: Why and How by zengid on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @04:49PM (#33724966)

> In my eyes, the most important ones are faster compilation and allowing metaprogramming via unrestricted compile time execution.

I'm fascinated by languages that are adding more compile-time programming features, in the context of a low-level performance-oriented use case. Would love to know more about the history and state of the art of this area.

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Re:Porting 58000 lines of D and C++ to jai, Part 0: Why and How by Corendos on Thursday November 24, 2022 @03:40AM (#33729028)

That actually makes a lot of sense to improve performance on specific parts. Think about generating lookup tables at compile time for example. Instead of having a separate script generating them, you can keep the generation close to the place you use it, written in the same language and always up to date.

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