On Friday, 29 May 2015 at 19:01:18 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 06:50:02PM +0000, Dicebot via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Friday, 29 May 2015 at 18:38:20 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>This will probably offend some people, but I think LDC/GDC
>should be
>the default download on dlang.org, and dmd should be provided
>as an
>alternative for those who want the latest language version
>and don't
>mind the speed compromise.
I did make LDC default compiler used in Arch but now people are
unhappy with increased compile times so I may need to revert
it back
:)
Can't please 'em all... According to Walter, many D users want
fast
compile times, and aren't as concerned about performance of the
generated code. But from this thread's OP, it seems there's
another
group of users who don't care about fast compile times but want
the
generated code to squeeze every last drop of performance from
their
CPUs.
So I guess we should be equally recommending all 3 compilers,
with a
note to help people choose their compiler depending on their
needs.
T
I think it might be worth investigating why LDC/GDC are slower
than dmd when compiling non-optimized builds. This seems like
something that would be easier to solve than getting dmd up to
the same performance level as LDC/GDC.
Bye,
