On 05/04/2015 00:33, Walter Bright wrote:
On 4/4/2015 1:59 PM, weaselcat wrote:
proprietary license hindering contributions and distribution, performs
worse
across the board against GDC/LDC in terms of optimized binaries, lack of
manpower in comparison to LLVM/GCC that have massive corporation and
educational
backing.
Massive manpower doesn't do much good when doing tricky things like
getting the optimizer to work well. An optimizer/code generator can be
kept all in one head at the same time.
MM pays off when you've got a galaxy of tools to be developed that are a
bit independent of each other.
"MM pays off when you've got a galaxy of tools to be developed that are
a bit independent of each other."
Exactly, and that's why LLVM/GCC are poised to have a lot more quality
than DMD/DMC (if they don't already). Because in the D world there is
also a variety of tools and development aspects to be worked upon:
optimizer/code generator; frontend; debugging support; profiler; website
and community admin; etc,
LLVM/GCC can have (at least) one person working full-time for *each* of
these aspects, whereas in the D world - at least for backend stuff like
the optimizer/code generator - it's mainly just you Walter. But you
working part-time on one such aspect, you can't possibly hope to match
the quality of a dedicated multi-person team such as what LLVM/GCC have.
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Bruno Medeiros
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