On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 6:29 PM, Walter Bright <newshou...@digitalmars.com> wrote: > I don't agree. There's very little, almost no, D specific support in the dmd > back end. It's a C compiler back end. Nearly all the work is done in the > front end, which should be little more than a cut & paste job for LDC and > GDC once they are already up and running with the front end.
As a casual observer of D, I've wondered in the past: why isn't D2 and the D community in general already using LLVM's backend by default? Seems that compiler back-ends are full of nitty-gritty details and relatively unglamorous work. This post makes me think there is nothing in the way, so why not just rally around LLVM and spend the time savings on more D-centric issues?
