Compiler benchmarker for D, C, C++, Go, Rust with more to come

[Andre Pany]

On Monday, 18 March 2019 at 12:33:12 UTC, Seb wrote:
> On Monday, 18 March 2019 at 11:02:55 UTC, aliak wrote:
>> On Monday, 18 March 2019 at 10:05:40 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>>> On 2019-03-17 21:09, Per Nordlöw wrote:
>>>
>>>> I thought that already is the case...
>>>
>>> No, the official binaries are built with DMD as the host 
>>> compiler.
>>
>> How come they're not built with LDC (for example) and then 
>> distributed? I'd think it'd be shit tonnes more performant?
>
> Yes it would be _a lot_ faster, but the release process is 
> pretty complicated [1] and at the moment Martin is the only one 
> who fully understands it and he's pretty busy with his day job 
> and other tasks.
>
> [1] https://github.com/dlang/installer

It would be great if a campaign (donations) could be created to 
overwork the release process. There are some quite important 
topics like 64 bit DMD for windows or the LDC builds.

Also the process should be easier and maybe even documented.

Kind regards
Andre