On Friday, 10 January 2014 at 20:59:35 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
On 10 January 2014 20:54, John Colvin
<john.loughran.col...@gmail.com> 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.
Indeed. But naturally I'd suggest they move to GCC. ;-)
I see LLVM as a better choice because the license is less
intrusive.
