[fpc-devel] pure function feedback

[Mattias Gaertner]

On 7/1/24 09:05, Marco van de Voort via fpc-devel wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
> FPC has JIT backends like JVM.

But that is just the backend, FPC still works only at compile time, so 
no JIT at runtime possible. Is it?

Mattias