dmd makes D appear slow

[Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 4 June 2015 at 03:04:31 UTC, ketmar wrote:
> 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!

No different from other MS-DOS C compilers.

Hence why such languages were the Pythons and Rubys of the day
and anyone that cared about performance was using straight
Assembly, in MS-DOS and other home systems, that is.

Michael Abrash books The Zen of Assembly Language and  Zen of
Code Optimization were published in 1990 and 1994 respectively.

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Paulo