Article first draft: The Joy and Gibbering Terror of Custom-Loading Executables

[Walter Bright]

Burton Radons wrote:
> Oh, and: I don't know why SCPPN (DigitalMars C) is twice as fast as
> DMD in Windows and many times slower in Linux. It asks for some
> really weird information (like GetTimeZoneInformation) that I just
> brush off rather than implement, so maybe I'm sending it on some
> loopy journey that costs millions of cycles. I might investigate that
> later.

The compiler calls ctime() in order to set the macros __DATE__, 
__TIME__, and __TIMESTAMP__.