dmd makes D appear slow

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On Wednesday, 3 June 2015 at 07:50:53 UTC, Paulo  Pinto wrote:
> 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.

Now really? C was designed at a time where you couldn't even hold 
the source file in memory, so there is not even a need for an 
explicit AST.

C can essentially be "streamed" in separate passes: 
cpp->cc->asm->linking

If compiling C is slow, it is just the compiler or the build 
system, not the language.