On Wednesday, 21 December 2016 at 16:41:58 UTC, Jesse Phillips
wrote:
On Wednesday, 21 December 2016 at 16:30:15 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
On Wednesday, 21 December 2016 at 10:15:26 UTC, hardreset
wrote:
Is moving to LLVM backend or LDC something that is on the
roadmap?
What does it mean to "move" to LDC? Why can't you use LDC now?
People that want to use D, want to use the latest and greatest.
The reference compiler moves the fastest so they want the
reference compiler to be switched to a different backend. Why a
FOSS back end is required to use D depends on the person,
usually it is political.
Any other backend would be better. DMD with -O takes over an hour
for my project to compile. In comparison LDC with -O3 takes less
than a minute and produces a faster binary. It doesn't really
make sense to increase the workload maintaining 2-3 different
compilers when D is already lacking manpower.
