On Thursday, 18 February 2016 at 00:35:01 UTC, Chris Wright wrote:
On Wed, 17 Feb 2016 22:57:20 +0000, 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?
Walter Bright is the lead developer, and for legal reasons he
will never touch source code from a compiler he didn't write.
And since DMD is something like twice as fast as LDC, there's
at least some argument in favor of keeping it around.
Should Walter retire, there's a reasonable chance that LDC will
become the primary compiler. However, compilation speed is
important.
I'm not sure how different LDC and DMD are, but perhaps you
could use DMD for development and LDC for production builds?
Correct me, but If I understand correctly what I read on other
threads, LDC & GDC uses the same frontend that DMD, but a few
versions more older because they need to update the glue layer
the front end with lvm/gnu backend ?
