Required DMD changes for Mir and few thoughts about D future

Stefan Koch via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Mon Sep 26 18:38:29 PDT 2016


On Tuesday, 27 September 2016 at 01:17:16 UTC, Andrei 
Alexandrescu wrote:
> I'm not going to argue this much further. Essentially Mir is 
> touted as a highly generic and portable library. Having it only 
> work on one language implementation works against that 
> statement, the credibility of Mir, and the credibility of D as 
> an universal platform for creating fast code. One way or 
> another we need to get Mir to be portable across all D 
> implementations and hopefully convince Ilya to move it into D's 
> standard library.
>
> [...]

In order to create code as efficient as ldc or gdc we need to 
rewrite dmds backend.

Are you suggesting that ?

Or are you arguing for importing a huge amount of pre-generated 
asm into phobos,
which would be much more likely to succeed.



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