dmd codegen improvements

[deadalnix via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 18 August 2015 at 17:31:50 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2015-08-18 17:22, Joakim wrote:
>
>> Well, you have to admit that it's pretty impressive that dmd's 
>> backend
>> gets within 30% of those monumental backends despite having 
>> pretty much
>> only Walter working on it sporadically.
>
> DMD has only a very limited set of targets compared to LLVM and 
> GCC. So they need more manpower to maintain and enhance the 
> backends.

Target are the tip of the iceberg. GCC and LLVM do most of their 
magic in the middle, that is common accross front ends and 
targets. And honestly, there is no way DMD can catch up.