Mid level IR

deadalnix via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sat Aug 15 14:13:30 PDT 2015


On Friday, 14 August 2015 at 16:13:07 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> Rust is getting a mid level IR for speeding up compilation.
>
> http://blog.rust-lang.org/2015/08/14/Next-year.html
> https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/1211
>
> It has been mentioned that before that this would be worthwhile 
> for D too.
>
> It also would make it much easier for backends to keep up with 
> the front end. The front end generating MIR, and the backends 
> using it.
>
> Another option would be to interface with Rust by generating 
> Rust MIR from D, if that is possible.
>
> What do you think?

This is what SDC is doing already.


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