ARM first & default LDC

[Max Haughton]

On Monday, 14 December 2020 at 10:48:43 UTC, IGotD- wrote:
> On Monday, 14 December 2020 at 09:57:05 UTC, Abdulhaq wrote:
>> [...]
>
> There is one thing that worries me. GCC and LLVM contains 
> primitives for optimizations and help for certain features. 
> These primitives are often complicated and takes time to 
> duplicate in the DMD backend. The result is that D will not use 
> the helpful primitives in LLVM and therefore skip certain 
> features that would otherwise be simpler to implement.
>
> The DMD backend might be Walter's darling but what if he could 
> move to LLVM, discover all the helpful primitives which perhaps 
> increase the productivity and new ideas might emerge. It's a 
> selling point.

What optimisation primitives?