Should LLVM become the default D-lang platform?

[John Colvin]

On Friday, 10 January 2014 at 20:54:06 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
> On Friday, 10 January 2014 at 20:51:19 UTC, Dwhatever wrote:
>> This might have been brought up before but I couldn't find any 
>> thread about this. As things has progressed I wonder if 
>> Digital Mars DMD should move over to use LLVM instead of its 
>> own code generation and compiler framework.
>>
>> As I see it with the small amount of contributors D-language 
>> has, DMD will never support anything beyond x86 as there are 
>> no resources for this. Also, why spend time on recreating the 
>> the code generation which has already been done with LLVM? 
>> This enables this community to focus on the language which is 
>> the most important part as well as supporting more and future 
>> processor targets.
>
> This comes up regularly. It's already been done. Ldc *is* dmd 
> with llvm backend. Gdc is the same idea but with the gcc 
> framework.

also, the digital mars backend is very fast, which is actually 
good selling point for some use-cases where compilation speed is 
important.