On Monday, 26 October 2015 at 21:29:47 UTC, default0 wrote:
On Monday, 26 October 2015 at 20:30:51 UTC, rsw0x wrote:
dmd will never reach gdc/ldc performance, gcc and LLVM have
entire teams of people that actively contribute to their
compilers.
We have a Walter though :-)
Walter has a job as well as trying to manage the programming
language as a whole. He also makes contributions to Phobos and
druntime which eat up time that he would otherwise spend on dmd.
Also, Walter seems to be the only one who understands the backend
code of dmd, so even if we left aside the licensing issues (which
are huge), that really limits the quality of the backend as
generally only one set of eyes are on the code.
Compare that to the team of LLVM, which has people working full
time on it as well as major contributions from some of the
largest tech companies.
