Official compiler

[Daniel Kozak via Digitalmars-d]

Yes all three compilers shared same frontend (different version generaly)

Dne 18.2.2016 v 09:57 Luis via Digitalmars-d napsal(a):
> 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 ?