dmd makes D appear slow

[Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 3 June 2015 at 07:05:37 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> Project size is irrelevant here. I had 500 line C++ project 
> that took 10 minutes to compile (hello boost::spirit). It is 
> impossible for C++ to compile faster than D by design. Any time 
> it seems so you either aren't comparing same thing or get 
> misinformed. Or do straightforward separate compilation.

Even C.

Our project, back when I was doing C in the early 2000's, a "make 
clean all" took around one hour.