On Wednesday, 2 September 2015 at 20:50:03 UTC, Ola Fosheim
Grøstad wrote:
On Wednesday, 2 September 2015 at 19:05:32 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
On 8/29/2015 9:16 PM, Ola Fosheim Grostad wrote:
Here is a good list:
[...]
5. Performance.
Ironically, you guys complained in this thread when that gets
worked on.
I agree that having a native D backend is a good thing. In
fact, I'd very much like to see WebAssembly/asm.js codegen
built around a backend that create compact builds since
download size is an issue. Which is a different kind of
"performance".
I just don't see how I could use the current backend to achieve
it. Maybe with your experience you could at some point in the
future lay the foundation for a new a free backend, that is
more minimalistic than LLVM, but that also could be used for
the web?
Adam Ruppe already wrote a javascript backend - it's not
maintained as I guess not so much interest. Maybe not the
fastest, but it's already been done. Again, JS not asm.js but I
don't see why a man of your evident ability should find this an
infeasible project were you to be serious about completing it.
