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[Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 2016-06-14 14:04, drug wrote:

> I don't agree if you don't mind. I have two almost identical
> implementation of the same thing in D and C++. And if I rebuild them
> totally - yes, dmd is faster than gcc:
>     dmd        5 secs
>     ldmd2      6 secs
>     make      40 secs
>     make -j10 11 secs
>
> But if I changed several lines only then dmd time doesn't change and gcc
> takes much less time. In fact digits are small for D, but I feel the
> difference really. Not big, not bad, but it exists.

For me, IIRC, it takes longer time to recompile a single C++ file from 
the DMD source code than it takes to build Phobos from scratch. What's 
slowing down the compilation of Phobos is the C code.

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/Jacob Carlborg