dmd makes D appear slow

[Bruno Medeiros via Digitalmars-d]

On 05/06/2015 23:07, Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>
> On 5 Jun 2015 20:55, "Bruno Medeiros via Digitalmars-d"
> <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com <mailto:digitalmars-d at puremagic.com>> wrote:
>  >
>  > On 29/05/2015 19:35, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>  >>
>  >> [...]
>  >>
>  >>> >This isn't the first time I've seen this, in basically every benchmark
>  >>> >featuring D I have to submit a patch/make a comment that dmd shouldn't
>  >>> >be used. Make no mistake, this is damaging to D's reputation - how
>  >>> >well does D's "native efficiency" go over when people are saying it's
>  >>> >slower than Scala and F#(mono)?
>  >>> >
>  >>> >LDC and GDC need promoted more.
>  >>
>  >> [...]
>  >>
>  >>
>  >> This will probably offend some people, but I think LDC/GDC should be the
>  >> default download on dlang.org <http://dlang.org>, and dmd should be
> provided as an
>  >> alternative for those who want the latest language version and don't
>  >> mind the speed compromise.
>  >
>  >
>  > It should be more than just LDC/GDC being the default download on
> dlang.org <http://dlang.org>, the DM backend and related toolchain
> should be phased out altogether in favor of LLVM.
>  >
>  > Walter might have written great compiler tools in the 90s or so, but
> in today's internet and FOSS online-collaborative era, how can the
> Digital Mars toolchain hope to compete with toolchains having teams of
> multiple full-time developers working on it? (plus a plethora of
> occasional volunteer contributors). The difference in manpower and
> resources is astonishing! And it's only gonna get bigger since LLVM is
> having more and more people and companies supporting it. By this rate,
> it may well one day make even GCC old and obsolete, left to be used by
> FSF zealots only.
>
> At the risk of speaking with lack of foresight, are you on the gcc
> mailing list too? If not, get on it. Otherwise you will enter this kind
> of polarised view of X will dominate all.
>

I'm not on any LLVM mailing list or forum either. It's too much volume 
for what I need to care/know about. I'm only on the LLVM Weekly 
newsletter. If GCC has a similar newsletter I might sign up to that.


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Bruno Medeiros
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