Compilation strategy

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Tue Dec 18 06:55:34 PST 2012


On 12/18/2012 3:43 AM, foobar wrote:
> Honest question - If D already has all the semantic info in COMDAT sections,

It doesn't. COMDATs are object file sections. They do not contain type info, for 
example.

>   * provide a byte-code solution to support the portability case. e.g Java
> byte-code or Google's pNaCL solution that relies on LLVM bit-code.

There is no advantage to bytecodes. Putting them in a zip file does not make 
them produce better results.



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