DMD support for Apples new silicon
Christian Köstlin
christian.koestlin at gmail.com
Mon Jan 11 15:28:49 UTC 2021
On 10.01.21 17:29, Guillaume Piolat wrote:
> On Sunday, 10 January 2021 at 16:03:53 UTC, Christian Köstlin wrote:
>>
>> Good news!
>> I was hoping for support in ldc, but dmds super fast compile times
>> would be very welcome. I guess it's more work to put an ARM backend
>> there.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Christian
>
> It is indeed more work and up to the DMD leadership what should happen.
>
> You can already switch between compilers with:
> dub --compiler dmd
> dub --compiler ldc2
>
> so as to benefit from dmd fast build times, and then release with ldc.
>
> Apple Silicon and Rosetta 2 are really quite fast, so you should
> experience pretty quick build times there anyway.
I do not have new Apple HW, but knowing that dlang is covered is a good
thing!
thanks a lot!
christian
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