Potential of a compiler that creates the executable at once

[max haughton]

On Friday, 11 February 2022 at 12:34:21 UTC, rempas wrote:
> On Thursday, 10 February 2022 at 20:39:33 UTC, Walter Bright 
> wrote:
>> [...]
>
> That's nice to hear! However, does DMD generates object files 
> directly or "asm" files that are passed to a C compile? If I 
> remember correctly, LDC2 needs to pass the output to a C 
> compiler as people told me so what's the case from DMD?
>
> [...]

The object emission code in the backend is quite inefficient, it 
needs to be rewritten (it's horrible old code anyway)