Study: build times for D programs

[Isaac Gouy]

Walter Bright Wrote:

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> (Back in the olden days, when men were men and and the sun revolved about the 
> earth, everyone raved about Borland's compilation speed. In tests I ran myself, 
> I found that it was fast, right up until you hit a certain size of source code, 
> maybe about 5000 lines. Then, it fell off a cliff, and compile speed was 
> terrible. But hey, it looked great in those tiny benchmarks.)
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Back in the olden days... "[Wirth] used the compiler's self-compilation speed as a measure of the compiler's quality."

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