"The total size of a static array cannot exceed 16Mb."

[Anders F Björklund]

Christopher Wright wrote:

>> Yes, I am _actually_ advocating the development of a different 
>> backend, or linker, or object format etc. over the release of D2.0.  
>> Yes, I am actually more interested in that. 
> 
> There's GDC. Walter could make that the default branch (and actually 
> mentioned that as a possibility at the conference). Though one of the 
> benefits of D is a fast compiler, and I don't know how much faster gdc 
> is compared to, say, gcc.

It usually clocks in somewhere inbetween gcc and g++, but I'm sure
that says more about the language complexity than about the compilers...

Not sure how LLVM does for speed, as I've only used it through GCC.
But I think the speed-above-everything DMD and OPTLINK still "win".

--anders