[ABI] 128bit integers and other vendor types

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 7/28/14, 11:37 AM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 04:24:27AM +1000, Daniel Murphy via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> "Andrei Alexandrescu"  wrote in message
>> news:lr6395$19r7$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>
>>> There'd also be the argument that using phobos inside ddmd would make
>>> the latter a better test for itself and phobos. -- Andrei
>>
>> This is true, but my main concern is the quality of the compiler
>> source.
>>
>> My main concerns are: (not in order)
>> - Compile time
>> - Binary bloat
>
> I see this as a good thing, actually. Not that I think it's good to
> increase compile time and binary bloat, but that when this happens, we
> will have very strong incentives to do something about it, that will
> drive us to do whatever it takes for Phobos to *not* get in the way of
> fast compile times and to *not* introduce tons of template bloat. The
> end result will be a far better quality Phobos than we might ever
> achieve otherwise, since external D codebases wouldn't be as strong an
> incentive as the compiler itself would.

YES! I wrote my reply before reading this!! -- Andrei