Visual D Build + DMD Bugginess = Bad

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Nick Sabalausky" <a at a.a> wrote in message 
news:i9ibi0$ddn$1 at digitalmars.com...
> "Rainer Schuetze" <r.sagitario at gmx.de> wrote in message 
> news:i9f2ce$30re$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>
>> I've used ddmd as a medium sized project for testing. It has more than 
>> 400 files with most modules mutually importing each other. Some remarks:
>>
>> - compilation speed is a lot worse, even when compared to what you would 
>> expect from a similar C/C++ project. It takes almost 8 minutes to compile 
>> ddmd on my system with single file compilation, while the standard 
>> compilation takes about 10 seconds.
>>
>
> Whaa...? Standard compilation of ddmd takes me a full two minutes.

As a sidebar, it's the *only* D program I've compiled that's ever taken more 
than a few seconds for me.