Official compiler

[Luis via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 18 February 2016 at 00:35:01 UTC, Chris Wright wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Feb 2016 22:57:20 +0000, Márcio Martins wrote:
>
>> I was reading the other thread "Speed kills" and was wondering 
>> if there is any practical reason why DMD is the official 
>> compiler?
>
> Walter Bright is the lead developer, and for legal reasons he 
> will never touch source code from a compiler he didn't write. 
> And since DMD is something like twice as fast as LDC, there's 
> at least some argument in favor of keeping it around.
>
> Should Walter retire, there's a reasonable chance that LDC will 
> become the primary compiler. However, compilation speed is 
> important.
>
> I'm not sure how different LDC and DMD are, but perhaps you 
> could use DMD for development and LDC for production builds?

Correct me, but If I understand correctly what I read on other 
threads, LDC & GDC uses the same frontend that DMD, but a few 
versions more older because they need to update the glue layer 
the front end with lvm/gnu backend ?