On Friday, 28 August 2015 at 11:53:20 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
On 28-Aug-2015 14:18, Temtaime wrote:
So comparing to llvm the idea of optimizing backend comes with:
1) LLVM optimizes code much better than DMD for now. And it's
in active
development, so it always will be far from DMD.
In producing better code very it well may be. Faster - I don't
think so.
2) LLVM has over 120k commits, it has many financial
investments from
Google and Apple. Are you sure that ONE Walter can achieve
what they done ?
3) LLVM supports many platforms while DMD will never support
anything
different from x86.
We do not need to do the new LLVM thing. Then the rest of
argument is destroyed.
You ignored probably the most important point in that post.
Getting DMD to work on ARM would be a huge undertaking, probably
so large that I don't think it will ever happen. This is a huge
bummer because this essentially means getting D on phones or
cheap computers is a pipe dream.
LDC's ARM branch shows that it can be done with LLVM as a back
end. It doesn't support 64 bit and I believe that exception
handling still doesn't work, but if there was more man power
dedicated to it, it would be possible.
