Ready for review: new std.uni

[David Nadlinger]

On Monday, 14 January 2013 at 04:42:33 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> I'll candidly mention that David's request was unclear to me. 
> It's been winding enough that I missed the key sentence. Was it 
> that we switch dmd to using llvm as backend?

If you want, yes - but not in the form of an actionable proposal 
yet. I was trying to argue that the benefits of using an existing 
solution like GCC or LLVM are large enough (resp. the costs of 
using a custom backend high enough) that we should seriously 
consider doing so. Especially because it looks as if the amount 
of work needed to keep the DMD backend and thus the reference D 
compiler competitive is going to increase further as other 
backends are gaining things like auto-vectorization to light up 
modern CPUs and ARM is gaining in importance.

David