Multithreaded I/O in the DMD compiler (DDJ article by Walter)

[dennis luehring]

dennis luehring schrieb:
> bearophile schrieb:
>> Daniel Keep:
>>> http://dobbscodetalk.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=Multithreaded-I-O.html&Itemid=29
>> 
>> Is this an improvement of the DMD backend? Now I'm curious: isn't DMD a legacy backend? If this is true, isn't improving it a waste of time, and time is better spent improving something like LLVM? (I am not trying to offend anyone here, I am just curious).

@bearophile

ask yourself - would you throw away your own backend?

and not to extend you backend and work on llvm is like throwing it away