dmd codegen improvements

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 9/3/2015 2:28 PM, Ola Fosheim Grostad wrote:
> I expected the list to be longer.

I don't. It takes 10 years to write a C++ compiler, and most companies wanting 
to get into the business found it far more practical to buy one as a starting point.


> Which one represents the non-cfront SGI
> compilers? SGI was quite heavily into C++ unlike most of the Unix world.

I don't know, but many companies tended to hide where they got their starting 
point. I know about a few of them simply from being in the business and knowing 
the players.

It's like VCRs. There were only a couple makers of VCR guts, but a lot of VCR 
boxes with different brand names on them that repackaged the same old guts. The 
same goes for dishwashers, SD cards, DVD blanks, etc.

EDG licensed their front end to a lot of companies who made their own branded 
C++ compilers, such as Intel C++.