[Llvm-bgq-discuss] D?

[Jeff Hammond]

I think Rusty is the primary D fanboy.  He's probably not going to do
any runtime development now that he's retired :-)

I'll talk to Tom about it in case others want to contribute.

Jeff

On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 9:51 AM, Hal Finkel <hfinkel at anl.gov> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Jeff Hammond" <jhammond at alcf.anl.gov>
>> To: "Hal Finkel" <hfinkel at anl.gov>
>> Cc: llvm-bgq-discuss at lists.alcf.anl.gov
>> Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2013 10:47:10 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Llvm-bgq-discuss] D?
>>
>> Some folks in MCS are D fanboys but I didn't want to suggest any
>> possibility of D on BGQ unless there was some degree of confidence
>> that it might work.
>
> I think that it should work; do you think that any of these folks would be willing to put some work into any necessary runtime porting? In any case, more users is a good thing, so let's get some conversation started with any interested people.
>
>  -Hal
>
>>
>> Jeff
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 9:45 AM, Hal Finkel <hfinkel at anl.gov> wrote:
>> > ----- Original Message -----
>> >> From: "Jeff Hammond" <jhammond at alcf.anl.gov>
>> >> To: llvm-bgq-discuss at lists.alcf.anl.gov
>> >> Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2013 9:13:00 AM
>> >> Subject: [Llvm-bgq-discuss] D?
>> >>
>> >> Anyone tried D over LLVM (http://wiki.dlang.org/LDC)?
>> >>
>> >
>> > I've not tried it; but I know that the primary developer, Kai,
>> > actively tests on PPC64/Linux (and reports bugs). Do you know
>> > anyone who is interested in using it?
>> >
>> >  -Hal
>> >
>> >> Jeff
>> >>
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