ARM first & default LDC

Wed Dec 30 18:04:25 UTC 2020

On Wednesday, 30 December 2020 at 17:49:43 UTC, Max Haughton 
wrote:
> SSA basically gets you a lot of optimisations for "free" 
> (amortized) if you maintain the property but other than that a 
> simple backend is hugely faster than LLVM as evidenced by 
> languages moving away from LLVM for debug builds.

Maybe it is possible to design a SSA that is very close to WASM? 
I think that tight code gen for WASM can be competitive as there 
is a desire to keep downloads small on the web.