On 4/4/2015 1:59 PM, weaselcat wrote:
proprietary license hindering contributions and distribution, performs worse across the board against GDC/LDC in terms of optimized binaries, lack of manpower in comparison to LLVM/GCC that have massive corporation and educational backing.
Massive manpower doesn't do much good when doing tricky things like getting the optimizer to work well. An optimizer/code generator can be kept all in one head at the same time.
MM pays off when you've got a galaxy of tools to be developed that are a bit independent of each other.