SDC-32bit

[Stefan Koch via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Saturday, 2 August 2014 at 22:48:35 UTC, Shammah Chancellor 
wrote:
> On 2014-08-01 05:00:53 +0000, deadalnix said:
>
>> On Tuesday, 29 July 2014 at 13:36:39 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>> I am happy to announce that my 32bit version of sdc compiles 
>>> the whole testsuite including mixins.
>>> the only there are only 6 tests still failing
>>> 2 of them are dependent on size_t.siezof beeing 8.
>>> The otherer 4 have to do with execptoion handling.
>>> 
>>> please check out the 32-branches
>>> on https://github.com/UplinkCoder/sdc
>>> and https://github.com/UplinkCoder/libd-llvm
>>> and https://github.com/UplinkCoder/libd
>>> 
>>> I haven't yet updated the submodules so you have to fetch the 
>>> 32-branch manually.
>>> 
>>> and remember that this is experimental!
>>> please file issues on in my repo if your errors appear with 
>>> both -m64 and -m32.
>>> 
>>> if there are any questions please ask them.
>> 
>> A bit late, but that is awesome. I need to go through all of 
>> this and am in holidays right now. #1 on the todo list when i 
>> come back.
>
> Also, it looks by using your fiber based scheduler that you can 
> naturally parallize compiling.  Have you investigated that at 
> all?

I have planned to add async IO through vibe.d. that alone just 
grant huge speedups. I also want to integrate SQLite or redis 
based incremental compilation. I don`t think we can beat dmd 
soon. But I think we can come much closer :D