Why does D rely on a GC?

[Ary Borenszweig via Digitalmars-d]

On 8/19/14, 10:55 AM, Daniel Murphy wrote:
> "Ary Borenszweig"  wrote in message news:lsviva$2ip0$1 at digitalmars.com...
>
>> Actually, it's 26m to just compile Rust without LLVM. Take a look at
>> this:
>
> Funny, the DDMD frontend compiles in ~6 seconds.

Nimrod's compiler takes 5 second. Crystal takes 6 seconds. I think 
compiling ldc2 also takes about the same time.

When I compile librustc with Rust with stats on, it takes 1.1 seconds to 
just *parse* the code. I think there's something very bad in their code...