Study: build times for D programs

[Walter Bright]

On 7/24/2012 8:06 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Nevertheless, I think there is value in the study. We're looking at a real
> nontrivial application that wasn't written for a study, but for actual use, and
> that implements the same design and same functionality in both languages.

The translation is also just that, a line-by-line translation that started by 
copying the .c source files to .d.

It's probably as good as you're going to get in comparing compile speed.