Running Ubuntu v10.10 x32 on Virtualbox with hardware virtualization, GCC v4.4.4 and DMD 2.053 installed. DMD debug: 54s DMD optimized: 47s Google's C++ optimized: 27s (gcc -O3 -lc -lstdc++) Bear's C++ optimized: 24s (g++ -O3 -std=gnu++0x) So it's MinGW's fault apparently.