Study: build times for D programs

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 7/24/12 8:20 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 7/24/2012 11:02 AM, Guillaume Chatelet wrote:
>> By the way, it reminds me of the 'Computer Language Benchmarks Game'
>> (http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/). I know D is not welcome aboard but
>> couldn't we try do run the game for ourself so to have some more data ?
>
> Small programs are completely inadequate for getting any reasonable
> measure of compiler speed. Even worse, they can be terribly wrong.

Nevertheless there's value in the shootout. Yes, if someone is up for it 
that would be great. I also think if we have the setup ready we could 
convince the site maintainer to integrate D into the suite.

Andrei