[fpc-devel] pure function feedback

[J. Gareth Moreton]

Aah, thanks Marco.  I still have some things to learn about FPC!

Kit

On 01/07/2024 08:05, Marco van de Voort via fpc-devel wrote:
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> Op 1-7-2024 om 02:34 schreef Hairy Pixels via fpc-devel:
>> I had a question about pure functions. I'm seeing some newer 
>> languages have a JIT built-in so they can run any function at compile 
>> time. To get results at compile time you probably need to use a 
>> constant for the parameters but in theory it could read/write to 
>> global variables so it's not really "pure" but still makes it 
>> possible to run functions at compile time.
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> FPC has JIT backends like JVM.
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