On 11/23/2012 06:56 PM, Mark Morss wrote:
Hello to all. I have just purchased a copy of Andrei A's book on D and
I'm about halfway through it. I have some projects in mind to which I
would like to apply this very interesting language.
I am working on an 8-core machine with x86-64 chips and Ubuntu 10.04. Am
I right that there is no dmd binary available for my machine??
No.
I only see i386 and amd64 options when I look at the binary download options.
amd64 is x86-64 and therefore what you want. It is named that way
because AMD introduced it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amd64
Apparently a build of dmd from source is impossible because the dmd
backend is proprietary? (This would seem to me to be a stumbling block
to D's acceptance, but that is not my concern.)
A build of dmd from source is possible, but you may not redistribute the
backend source code without explicit permission.
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd
There is an LLVM compiler, ldc, available via Ubuntu's package manager.
Is this any good?
The package is usually out of date. You can build ldc from source:
https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc
https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/wiki/Installation
There is also gdc, which uses the gcc backend:
https://github.com/D-Programming-GDC/GDC
http://www.gdcproject.org/wiki/Installation
I would rather try out D than use some other options that I have.
However my experience with compiled languages has convinced me that the
efficiency of one's compiler, as well its ability actually to implement
everything that's supposed to be possible in the given language, is a
very significant concern. I don't want to get up to my elbows in D and
discover that something doesn't compile
You will likely hit some compiler bugs of this kind at this point.
Usually they are reasonably easy to work around.
or doesn't execute so very well after being compiled.
This is very rare.
I seached the list for this concern and came up with nothing. But I
apologize if the Ubuntu x86-64 issue has already been addressed.
Best to all.
