DMD git HEAD now self-hosting

[wobbles via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 28 August 2015 at 14:55:51 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 11:17:55AM +1000, Daniel Murphy via 
> Digitalmars-d wrote:
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> Apparently. :-P
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> 6 months isn't that long of a time. Excited to hear that 100% D 
> DMD will soon arrive.
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> Another thing I just realized, is that by moving DMD to D, 
> we've given ourselves much greater motivation to improve DMD's 
> codegen, which I think is a good (and necessary!) thing, being 
> the reference compiler and all. Not every newbie will 
> understand the current situation where the reference compiler 
> doesn't produce the most performant code.
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And the other advantage is that we'll get performant code with a 
performant compiler - GDC/LDC are much slower running than DMD.