betterC DLL in Windows

Tamas km212121 at gmail.com
Sun Feb 5 08:37:21 UTC 2023


On Saturday, 4 February 2023 at 19:44:15 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
> On Saturday, 4 February 2023 at 18:29:41 UTC, Tamas wrote:
>
>> What's the reason to prefer LDC over DMD?
>
> Anyone that cares about performance will use LDC rather than 
> DMD. It's hard to imagine a case where someone would want 
> betterC to avoid the GC, but they wouldn't want to use LDC. 
> When I started using D many years ago, LDC was behind DMD, so 
> you needed to use DMD to have a current compiler. That's no 
> longer true. The only reason I use DMD today is the faster 
> compilation speed when I'm doing a lot of write-compile-debug 
> iterations.

Good to know, thank you. The posts I've seen so far online 
suggesting to start with DMD must've been outdated, then.


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