why and how D can solve the next software crisis (was Re: Negative)

[Anders F Björklund]

Kevin Bealer wrote:

> It doesn't have to be part of the GCC found on GNU's FTP site, but you need to
> at least be able to install the compiler and libphobos from "RPMs" or build them
> from one or two tar files.

There *are* RPMs for GDC and DMD, though ?
Just haven't had space for the binaries...

But the specs can be found from here:
http://www.algonet.se/~afb/d/gdc.spec
http://www.algonet.se/~afb/d/dmd.spec

>>Part of this speed comes from optlink, I think ? (when it doesn't crash)
>>At least I've found the GCC linking to be slower, doubly so for C++...
> 
> I don't know - I usually work in Linux, and there it looks like dmd uses gcc to
> do the link. There is an option that lets you see the commands its running.

Yes, that is true - it does use gcc on Linux.

--anders