Patches, bottlenecks, OpenSource

[bearophile]

Don:

>And really, D doesn't need many people working on the DMD compiler.<

I agree, it's like having many people working around a dead corpse trying to revive it. Better use the time to adopt gcc and llvm back-ends at their best, keeping in mind, while designing D, that there are features that those back-ends have and the dmd back-end doesn't have that it will be good to add to the language. Simple example: refusing computed gotos because they are a lot of work to implement is not a justification that holds if both gcc and llvm already implement them and allow the front-end to just use them in a simple enough way.

Bye,
bearophile