LLVM progress

[Walter Bright]

On 9/7/2013 9:42 AM, Benjamin Thaut wrote:
> I doubt that LDC has compile times that are 3-5 times longer then those of DMD
> (even in debug without optimization). D advertises with short compile times, so
> unless LDC improves I don't see this happening. And thats only one of the points.


Having 3 different D compilers with different strengths and weaknesses spurs 
improvements in all of them. When I was at GoingNative2013, it was pretty 
obvious to me that the playful and friendly competition between gcc, clang, and 
vc has improved all three greatly.