Free the DMD backend

Michael via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue May 31 02:32:10 PDT 2016


On Monday, 30 May 2016 at 15:06:42 UTC, Saurabh Das wrote:
> On Monday, 30 May 2016 at 14:51:48 UTC, Matthias Klumpp wrote:
>
> The case for DMD though is compile speed. It really changes the 
> way one writes programs and makes it possible to write bash 
> script-like functionality in D because of a rapid compile-run 
> cycle.
>
> LDC and GDC are quite a bit slower than DMD. Is this gap 
> inherent in the structure of these compilers or can there be an 
> LDC mode which compiles as rapidly as DMD?

Can this be alleviated with something like rdmd for LDC? Does the 
old ldmd2 project still exist?


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