On Tuesday, 2 December 2014 at 10:57:20 UTC, Temtaime wrote:
It's only words.
If we speak about LDC it can compile fast in debug mode with
performance average to DMD's backend but with much great
performance in release mode thanks to vectorization and other
techniques.
Also LDC thanks to LLVM supports X86, X86-64, PowerPC,
PowerPC-64, ARM, Thumb, SPARC, Alpha, CellSPU, MIPS, MSP430,
SystemZ, and XCore platforms. And what about DMD? Only x86 and
x86-64.
Just link LLVM statically with LDC and LDC will work out of the
box as DMD. No problems at both Windows and Linux.
That's good to hear. I never opposed to LDC nor GCD. In fact, LDC
has the much needed support for other architectures. But the fact
remains that dmd is a nice-to-have tool that works out of the
box, and I don't see why there shouldn't be a dmd backend only
because we have two other compilers. It always sounds as if a dmd
backend somehow "harmed" the other two compilers.
Also, one has to set up the LLVM infrastructure etc., which is an
extra step, unless LLVM works out of the box on Windows, which I
might not be aware right now.
