Why DMD is so slow?

[Robert Fraser]

Unknown W. Brackets wrote:
> As everyone has said, these are problems in DMD and DMC.
> 
> DMD is not a bad compiler, but it doesn't have all of the optimizations 
> that some other compilers are.  For example, Microsoft's cl and Intel's 
> icc might possibly beat gcc at this too (although they don't currently 
> compile D code.)
> 
> Anyway, it's a matter of priorities.  Improving the performance of DMD 
> compiled programs is great, but making the D language work is more 
> important.  If GDC can do a good optimization job, that's great for it 
> imho.

Which is why I think the LLVM project is so important. Many languages -> 
one optimizer -> many targets