narrowed down the problem area

[Bill Baxter]

On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 2:26 PM, K.Wilson <phizzzt at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I just finished initial support for x86-64 output with the ldc compiler (dmdfe attached to llvm backend) and wanted to do some timings, so I used the ray tracing code mentioned in this old thread. I compiled things with the same optimization flags mentioned in the thread and came up with these averages over 6 runs on an AMD x86-64 machine running Fedora Core Linux.
>
> llvm-g++4.0.1   5.76
> ldc-rev736      6.68
> g++4.1.2        6.72
> gdc0.24         7.45
> g++4.3.1        7.66
> dmd1.030        14.52
>
> Seems like the LLVM backend is doing well (though I have seen other timings where g++4.x beats llvm-g++4.x, so take from this what you will).
>
> I just thought I would let people know that ldc is coming along and performs quite well, at this point. And it has some x86-64 support now ;)

Faaaaan Tastic!

So how is Windows support coming along?  Does it build smoothly with MinGW now?

--bb