dmd codegen improvements

Joakim via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue Aug 18 09:15:50 PDT 2015


On Tuesday, 18 August 2015 at 15:45:25 UTC, anonymous wrote:
> On Tuesday, 18 August 2015 at 15:22:15 UTC, Joakim wrote:
>> Also, soon the dmd compiler backend will be the only one 
>> written in D. :)
>
> Soon the front end will be written in D. And the front end is 
> shared among dmd, gdc, ldc. Walter has expressed a desire to 
> port the back end to D, too [1]. But that's not going to happen 
> "soon".
>
> [1] http://forum.dlang.org/post/mohrrs$1pu7$1@digitalmars.com

Yes, that's why I said the dmd _backend_ will be the only one 
written in D.  Not sure how you know what the timeline for such a 
backend port is, seems like he really wants to get everything in 
D soon.


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