dmd makes D appear slow

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On Wednesday, 3 June 2015 at 11:06:39 UTC, weaselcat wrote:
> it can get even better if you properly modularize your projects 
> instead of having 1-2 files that build slow, which causes a lot 
> of waiting.

Yes, sure. You can probably get the same build speeds as with C 
if you organize your code in a particular way or shy away from 
certain patterns.

What I was talking about was the language, meaning that you don't 
write your code to give a boost in compilation speed. Clearly 
possible, but if you use third party frameworks… then you're out 
of luck.

An analogy: SQL isn't particularly expressive, but the 
limitations of the language makes it possible to execute it 
bottom-up. NOSQL engines are even less expressive, but can be 
even more easily distributed.