David Nadlinger wrote:
Might I respectfully disagree here? The fact that DMD is emitting OMF on Windows has indeed been a major annoyance for me, especially back when I was new to D, and I suspect that many other people new to D might have felt the same. Even more so since on Windows there are virtually no alternatives to OPTLINK with its occasional bugs (yes, even though I develop mostly on Linux and, more recently, OS X, I hit an OPTLINK bug more than just once).
The optlink situation has gotten better, but it has a couple more issues I want to fix.
On a side note: My little software rasterizer was apparently one of the rare cases where LLVM and GCC generate significantly faster code (typically about 10x times faster in terms of frame time, if I remember correctly) than DMD, but I agree that a software renderer certainly does not qualify as common case.
dmd does not use the xmm registers for floating point, so its performance tends to be worse on that for later CPUs.
