On Fri, 23 Dec 2016 18:29:15 +0000, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d wrote: > On Sat, 2016-12-24 at 03:44 +1300, rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d > wrote: >> […] >> >> Except dmd's backend is far more well proven then LLVM is. > > Come now that is obfuscation – you need to make good on this claim. > > The LLVM backend has many, many more users than the DMD backend and the > LLVM backend is used with many more different languages than the DMD > backend. The LLVM backend is proven far more than the DMD backend simply > on the basis of statistical likelihood.
Plus the number of people on hand to fix errors in LLVM outweighs the number available to fix errors in the DigitalMars backend by a factor of several hundred.