ARM first & default LDC

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad]

On Wednesday, 30 December 2020 at 16:25:08 UTC, claptrap wrote:
> Is it plausible to make a new backend that takes LLVM IR, so it 
> uses the same glue layer as LDC? Or would that inhibit fast 
> compilation?

I think LDC uses some LLVM provided utility code for building the 
initial SSA, but you probably could do that.

I don't think the glue layer is the most work though, so you 
would probably be better off creating a simpler SSA than LLVM?

I haven't given this much thought, though.