Free the DMD backend

Johan Engelen via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue May 31 04:53:37 PDT 2016


On Monday, 30 May 2016 at 15:06:42 UTC, Saurabh Das wrote:
>
> 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?

The difference in time between LDC and DMD is in the machine code 
generation that is much slower in LDC (LLVM) than in DMD, even in 
debug mode.
We are looking into improving codegen speed, but it is not 
something straightforward.

-Johan



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