D slower than C++ in compile time

[Lars Ivar Igesund]

Robert Fraser wrote:

> Christopher Wright Wrote:
>> It would be nice Walter could add a couple people who just manage
>> bugfixes, then put the dmd frontend on dsource.
> 
> I think what we really need is an entirely separate front-end (GDC and
> LLVMDC use DMD's) that would do everything DMD's existing front-end does
> (lexical, parsing & semantic analysis, optimization, CTFE interpreting,
> template expansion, Ddoc generation, etc.). Hopefully, it would be clearer
> (DMD's code is fairly complex...) and ideally it would be written in D,
> with a simple C or C++ interface for linking to backends. IMO, it should
> use the visitor pattern, so it could be passed a C++ class that would do
> the code generation, using D2's C++ interface. This would be easy(ish) to
> integrate with backends that use DMD's existing frontend so LLVMDC, GDC
> and DMD could all use it. It could also then be integrated into IDEs,
> static analysis/refactoring tools, code formatters, whatever, that could
> make visitors that do things post-semantic pass.
> 
> But all the time I have to spend on D coding, I'd rather spend on Descent.
> 
> (Sorry for the web interface; I' not at home right now).

Dil?

http://code.google.com/p/dil/

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