Move VisualD to github/d-programming-language ?

Trent anon at nope.avi
Thu Sep 12 09:22:18 PDT 2013


On Thursday, 12 September 2013 at 15:55:26 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
> On Thursday, 12 September 2013 at 11:30:57 UTC, PauloPinto 
> wrote:
>> I don't get the point, what there is VM like when I compile 
>> Java, Scala, F#, C# native code?
>>
>
> Compiling such language to native code require horribly 
> convoluted code generation. For instance, an helloworld in java 
> compilled natively with gcj gives you a 50Mb (!) binary blob.

GCJ also doesn't offer improved performance over the JVM for 
non-trivial code. It will reduce the startup time, since no JIT 
is needed, but beyond that it doesn't really offer benefits.

Not sure about other VM->native compilation


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