ARM first & default LDC

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad]

On Saturday, 19 December 2020 at 19:34:32 UTC, Max Haughton wrote:
> You realise that that 80% (450k overall, backend is 90k) of the 
> code in has nothing to do with the code generation.

You realise that creating a high quality backend that is 100% bug 
free takes a lot of effort and that you have to maintain it in 
perpetuity? It isn't sufficient that someone "just does it", it 
also has to be correct, efficient and updated.

> Apple are also pretty reticent to upstream stuff to LLVM but 
> that doesn't really matter because the dmd backend isn't and 
> shouldn't be complicated enough to need that information.

It isn't even obvious that Apple will release the full ISA for 
their future ARM CPUs.