On Friday, 23 December 2016 at 22:41:28 UTC, Chris Wright wrote:
On Fri, 23 Dec 2016 18:29:15 +0000, Russel Winder via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Sat, 2016-12-24 at 03:44 +1300, rikki cattermole via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
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Except dmd's backend is far more well proven then LLVM is.
Come now that is obfuscation – you need to make good on this
claim.
The LLVM backend has many, many more users than the DMD
backend and the LLVM backend is used with many more different
languages than the DMD backend. The LLVM backend is proven far
more than the DMD backend simply on the basis of statistical
likelihood.
Plus the number of people on hand to fix errors in LLVM
outweighs the number available to fix errors in the DigitalMars
backend by a factor of several hundred.
Although there is a small delay in that. While we try to remain
compilable with LLVM trunk it does tend to break frequently and
you then have to use llvm trunk.
