LLVM

[jcc7]

== Quote from Craig Black (cblack at ara.com)'s article
> LLVM (http://llvm.org/) is a backend for compilers.  It is portable to
> many platforms, well documened, and actively developed.  It seems that > they
are making great progress with it.
>
> A crazy idea.  Has anyone considered using LLVM with D's front end?

Someone has looked into doing this a couple years ago. I don't know if he ran into
a serious problem (or perhaps just lost interest in the idea), but I'm guessing he
never finished his project:

http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/D/gnu/762.html