Official compiler

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On Thursday, 18 February 2016 at 06:57:01 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote:
> On Wednesday, 17 February 2016 at 22:57:20 UTC, Márcio Martins 
> wrote:
>> [...]
>
> Hi,
>
> even if DMD is the official reference compiler, the download 
> page http://dlang.org/download.html already mentions "strong 
> optimization" as pro of GDC/LDC vs. "very fast compilation 
> speeds" as pro of DMD.
>
> If we would make GDC or LDC the official compiler then the next 
> question which pops up is about compilation speed....
>
> Regards,
> Kai

an additional major pro of ldc/gdc is that they're under a free 
license and can be freely redistributed, dmd is not