On Saturday, 17 June 2017 at 23:00:49 UTC, Joakim wrote:
On Saturday, 17 June 2017 at 21:48:31 UTC, Mark wrote:
On Sunday, 28 May 2017 at 19:23:04 UTC, Nordlöw wrote:
Does this, perchance, deserve a post in "Announce"? :)
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=D-Frontend-For-GCC
800k lines of code! Wow. Is this also how big the DMD frontend
is?
No, Dscanner says the current ddmd frontend is about 84 klocs
of D code, and I found last year that about 63 klocs of that
was used by ldc, so that's what's really needed:
http://forum.dlang.org/thread/ovkhtsdzlfzqrqneo...@forum.dlang.org
I don't think this patch would be using the ddmd frontend
though, as gdc was still using the older C++ frontend last I
Doesn't make much difference whether in C++ or D.
heard, but without having looked at the patch at all, the big
difference is probably that they're counting druntime and
The link in the article is to the patch series posting, which
includes only the patch summary and diff stat. If you haven't
read it then I highly recommend that you do.
phobos also, and misrepresenting that as part of the frontend.
About 90% of that is the combination of dmd frontend, testsuite,
druntime, phobos - i.e files that are copied verbatim from dlang
on github. Then half of the remainder is roughly auto generated
content.
Regards,
Iain.
