"Nick Sabalausky" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > ... (cutted) ... > > That's not the compiler, that's the linker. I don't know what linker DMD > uses on OSX, but on Windows it uses OPTLINK which is written in > hand-optimized Asm so it's really hard to change. But Walter's been > converting it to C (and maybe then to D once that's done) bit-by-bit (so > to speak), so linker improvements are at least on the horizon. > > ...
Why C and not directly D? It is really bad adversting for D to know that when its creator came around to rewrite the linker, Walter decided to use C instead of D. -- Paulo
