On Thursday, 18 February 2016 at 02:29:52 UTC, Márcio Martins
wrote:
On Thursday, 18 February 2016 at 00:06:10 UTC, Xinok wrote:
On Wednesday, 17 February 2016 at 22:57:20 UTC, Márcio Martins
wrote:
I was reading the other thread "Speed kills" and was
wondering if there is any practical reason why DMD is the
official compiler?
...
I pretty much asked this same question a little over a year
ago. Thread is here:
http://forum.dlang.org/thread/mjwitvqmaqlwvoudj...@forum.dlang.org
I am not proposing a new backend for DMD, that discussion is
going nowhere. I am considering changing the compiler that is
tagged as "official", instead.
It would probably be for the best if there was some push to make
LDC 'the' D compiler over a 6 month or 1 year period that
included getting LDC and DMD perfectly in sync(AFAIK there's
currently heavily refactoring going on in the frontend to help
this?)
LDC has the downside in that it's a lot slower than DMD. I've
never worked on the LDC codebase so I'm not even sure if this
could be fixed.
