Migrating dmd to D?

[Timon Gehr]

On 03/01/2013 07:48 AM, Marco Leise wrote:
> Am Thu, 28 Feb 2013 18:44:31 +0100
> schrieb Timon Gehr <timon.gehr at gmx.ch>:
>
>> * wc -l reveals that the DMD front end source code is roughly 30 to 40
>> times larger than it should be for what it does in my opinion.
>
> That can only mean that you don't really know what it does in
> my opinion.

I guess it (almost) implements the language. :)

> Sure such a large code base accumulates duplicates
> since not everybody knows about all helper functions or copy
> and paste was the least intrusive bug fix somewhere, but you
> don't really believe that 94% of the front end are
> unnecessary, do you?
>

I believe it is bloated. Maybe it's partly because it is written in C++.

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