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

[Robert Fraser]

bearophile wrote:
> 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).
> 
> Bye,
> bearophile

DMD still produces better integer code (on x86) than GDC or LLVMDC.  And 
it's fast at generating code. So "legacy" as it may be, it still has 
some strengths.