dmd codegen improvements

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On Friday, 28 August 2015 at 01:42:22 UTC, Daniel Murphy wrote:
> "John Colvin"  wrote in message 
> news:qlbnpjnizwpslrdpktsw at forum.dlang.org...
>
>> I think he's saying that the argument: "Don't work on DMD 
>> because it's already far behind" could have been applied to 
>> working on LLVM when it was far behind GCC.  I don't agree, 
>> but I think that's what he means.
>
> It helps that LLVM has a superior license.

+ LLVM started as an academic research project in compiler 
design, so it was never far behind conceptually...