dmd makes D appear slow

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On Wed, 03 Jun 2015 12:20:28 +0000, Paulo  Pinto wrote:

>> 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.
> 
> Yes really, specially when comparing with Turbo Pascal, Delphi,
> Modula-2, Oberon and a few other languages not tied to UNIX linker
> model.

yes, i remember lightning fast compile times with turbo pascal. yet the 
code it produced was really awful: it was even unable to fold constants 
sometimes!
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