Tail pad optimization, cache friendlyness and C++ interrop

[Joakim via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 19 June 2014 at 18:10:57 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 6/19/2014 4:12 AM, Artur Skawina via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> On 06/18/14 18:42, Dicebot via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>>> On Wednesday, 18 June 2014 at 11:09:14 UTC, Artur Skawina via 
>>> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>>>> The number of potential contributors is
>>>> already low enough, and the fuzzy licensing situation drives 
>>>> away the
>>>> most valuable ones (since those will often be the ones which 
>>>> treat the
>>>> legal aspects seriously and the risks involved when dealing 
>>>> with this
>>>> kind of mixed free and proprietary code within one repo are 
>>>> too high).
>>>
>>> Wait what? Do you know a single person who decided to not 
>>> work on DMD FE because of kind of formally (but not 
>>> practically) non-free backend?
>>
>> Well, do you think I would have said what I did if this issue 
>> didn't
>> affect /me/? [1]
>
> The front end is now Boost licensed.

Admittedly his concerns are unclear, but his problem is with the 
backend, not the frontend, which he already said he likes better 
now that it's boost-licensed.  He claims that the proprietary 
backend scares potential contributors away and that it should be 
"split up" from the frontend, by which he might mean putting it 
in a separate git repo?

I don't know enough about these copyright tainting concerns to 
say if it's a good idea, just pointing out that he was talking 
about the backend, not the frontend.