On 1/2/11 3:01 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
The problems D has had have rarely been the back end.
Might I respectfully disagree here? The fact that DMD is emitting OMF on Windows has indeed been a major annoyance for me, especially back when I was new to D, and I suspect that many other people new to D might have felt the same. Even more so since on Windows there are virtually no alternatives to OPTLINK with its occasional bugs (yes, even though I develop mostly on Linux and, more recently, OS X, I hit an OPTLINK bug more than just once).
On a side note: My little software rasterizer was apparently one of the rare cases where LLVM and GCC generate significantly faster code (typically about 10x times faster in terms of frame time, if I remember correctly) than DMD, but I agree that a software renderer certainly does not qualify as common case.
No offense intended, David
