On Friday, 10 January 2014 at 20:54:06 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
On Friday, 10 January 2014 at 20:51:19 UTC, Dwhatever wrote:
This might have been brought up before but I couldn't find any
thread about this. As things has progressed I wonder if
Digital Mars DMD should move over to use LLVM instead of its
own code generation and compiler framework.
As I see it with the small amount of contributors D-language
has, DMD will never support anything beyond x86 as there are
no resources for this. Also, why spend time on recreating the
the code generation which has already been done with LLVM?
This enables this community to focus on the language which is
the most important part as well as supporting more and future
processor targets.
This comes up regularly. It's already been done. Ldc *is* dmd
with llvm backend. Gdc is the same idea but with the gcc
framework.
also, the digital mars backend is very fast, which is actually
good selling point for some use-cases where compilation speed is
important.
