dmd makes D appear slow

Wed Jun 3 04:46:01 PDT 2015

On Wednesday, 3 June 2015 at 11:35:43 UTC, weaselcat wrote:
> ah yes, those famous fast C build times.
> Excuse me while I go take half an hour to build GDB.

Heh... It is possible to write very fast C compilers with high 
concurrency in builds, if there is a market for it, but most 
people want some optimizations too. So that's what people 
evaluate a compiler by: typical integration builds. Squeaky wheel 
gets most oil.