Should LLVM become the default D-lang platform?

[John Colvin]

On Monday, 13 January 2014 at 12:47:09 UTC, Manu wrote:
> On 13 January 2014 21:40, Kai Nacke <kai at redstar.de> wrote:
>
>> On Monday, 13 January 2014 at 05:04:46 UTC, Manu wrote:
>>
>>> On 12 January 2014 00:35, Kai Nacke <kai at redstar.de> wrote:
>>>
>>>  On Friday, 10 January 2014 at 20:51:19 UTC, Dwhatever wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  This might have been brought up before but I couldn't find 
>>>> any thread
>>>>> about this. As things has progressed I wonder if Digital 
>>>>> Mars DMD should
>>>>> move over to use LLVM instead of its own code generation 
>>>>> and compiler
>>>>> framework.
>>>>>
>>>>> As I see it with the small amount of contributors 
>>>>> D-language has, DMD
>>>>> will never support anything beyond x86 as there are no 
>>>>> resources for
>>>>> this.
>>>>> Also, why spend time on recreating the the code generation 
>>>>> which has
>>>>> already been done with LLVM? This enables this community to 
>>>>> focus on the
>>>>> language which is the most important part as well as 
>>>>> supporting more and
>>>>> future processor targets.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> You currently can't get the best of all worlds in a single 
>>>> compiler.
>>>>
>>>> LLVM does not support exceptions on native Win32. (Same is 
>>>> true for Win64
>>>> but I hope to change this.) LLVM does not support CodeView 
>>>> debug symbols.
>>>> Not in the format embedded in object file and not as PDB.
>>>> In short, you loose the complete native Windows tool chain.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Is there any progress on any of these things BTW?
>>> At some point, sooner or later, we're REALLY going to need a 
>>> performance
>>> compiler on Windows...
>>>
>>
>> My patch for exceptions on Win64 is finally in review. I hope 
>> to commit it
>> soon.
>>
>> The Google guys are adding COFF line number support right now.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Kai
>
>
> Oooohh yeah, this is exciting! :D
> How about Win32? That's really important too, particularly 
> since DMD
> doesn't support Win32 :/

Genuine question, I have never done any windows specific 
development: Why is Win32 a concern? Where is the overlap between 
requiring Win32 and high performance? Isn't 64 where it's at now?

Is it windows tablets/phones???