Article: Increasing the D Compiler Speed by Over 75%

[Walter Bright]

On 8/2/2013 1:45 PM, user wrote:
> I am OK with the existing definition of speed, but would like to see the
> definition mentioned somewhere at the top. speed = lines_compiled/sec. Even
> though its obvious to some people, it not to me!

Sigh. It's not even lines per second, it's dimensionless when using percentages. 
Note that I never needed to count the number of lines to get a correct percentage.


> I guess that's why all the technical docs I write have a explicit "definitions"
> section at the top in the template. I should start using it more often.

I wouldn't even read an article that had a sidebar at the top explaining what 
"speed" was.