On 9 Aug 2015 11:35 am, "Johannes Pfau via Digitalmars-d" <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote:
>
> Am Sun, 9 Aug 2015 02:17:11 -0700
> schrieb Walter Bright <newshound2@digitalmars.com>:
>
> > On 8/9/2015 2:07 AM, Johannes Pfau wrote:
> > > DMD has the advantage that whenever a frontend pull request requires
> > > glue layer changes you get at and once by the contributor. But for
> > > LDC and GDC the glue layer changes have to be implemented by GDC/LDC
> > > devs.
> >
> > If LDC were the default, then the GDC devs would still have to do the
> > same work.
> >
>
> Sure. I'm not arguing that LDC or GDC should be the default, just
> wanted to explain why we could really need some more contributors for GDC/LDC ;-)

I'd just like to add (before I disappear for the day).  That I spent the first 4 years developing gdc on a netbook which had a single core Atom chip clocked at 1.6ghz, with 4GB memory (upgraded from 2GB after building libphobos unittester started consuming far too much memory).

Just incase anyone pulls out the 'takes too long to build' rabbit from their hat.

Iain.