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

[dennis luehring]

dennis luehring schrieb:
> dennis luehring schrieb:
>> bearophile schrieb:
>>> Daniel Keep:
>>>> http://dobbscodetalk.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=Multithreaded-I-O.html&Itemid=29
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>>> 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).
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> @bearophile
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> ask yourself - would you throw away your own backend?
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> and not to extend you backend and work on llvm is like throwing it away

that does not mean that i don't want to see an llvm based backend - it 
seems to be a very good and fast "compiler"