D vs Go in real life

[Daniel Murphy]

"Shammah Chancellor" <anonymous at coward.com> wrote in message 
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>> Yeah.  See:
>> http://forum.dlang.org/post/khkst4$13ad$1@digitalmars.com
>> http://forum.dlang.org/post/jqvduhyvfufpzovpyqbj@forum.dlang.org
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>> Patches against dmd: 
>> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/1980
>> Converter tool: https://github.com/yebblies/magicport2
>> Pull requests marked DDMD: 
>> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pulls/yebblies
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> This is AWESOME!!!!   Keep up the good work.  Can't wait to see how the 
> DMD frontend performs in D.
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>From a quick test, compiling ddmd with ddmd takes about 80% longer than 
compiling ddmd with c++dmd.  I suspect a lot of this is from not using the 
tuned allocator from the C++ version.

> With the version, is there any chance of LLVM being the default backend --  
> or is Walter opposed to that?
>

As Walter said, there is no chance of that happening.  However, we are 
slowly working to integrate or refactor away all gdc/ldc patches against the 
frontend.  This should greatly reduce the effort to merge patches, hopefully 
resulting in all three compilers permanently being in sync.