On Wednesday, 21 December 2016 at 21:12:07 UTC, Jerry wrote:
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:
[...]
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.
That sounds like a bug in the DMD backend...
