Posted by: Anonymous
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on January 18, 2008 07:10 PM
There are some other points to keep in mind: The DMD is not completely open source and there's no x64 port, so GDC is actually very important, but according to sourceforge it has only a single developer!
I'm not so sure if it wouldn't be better to simply create a frontend for C or C++ and reuse existing C compilers with all their optimizations - they take years to implement so why reinvent the wheel. The result is something like Mono which get beaten by factors by the MS .NET runtime. The GDC frontend of course has that advantage already though creating a gcc frontend isn't that easy either. I don't know whether the digital mars c compiler and DMD share the same backend).
An interesting language that uses that approach is Vala (http://live.gnome.org/Vala). Another language to keep track of!
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Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 217.229.50.106] on January 18, 2008 07:10 PMI'm not so sure if it wouldn't be better to simply create a frontend for C or C++ and reuse existing C compilers with all their optimizations - they take years to implement so why reinvent the wheel. The result is something like Mono which get beaten by factors by the MS .NET runtime. The GDC frontend of course has that advantage already though creating a gcc frontend isn't that easy either. I don't know whether the digital mars c compiler and DMD share the same backend).
An interesting language that uses that approach is Vala (http://live.gnome.org/Vala). Another language to keep track of!
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