Honey, I shrunk the build times

[Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d]

On 15 June 2015 at 02:55, David Nadlinger via Digitalmars-d
<digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
> On Sunday, 14 June 2015 at 19:02:59 UTC, weaselcat wrote:
>>
>> after playing around with ddmd built with ldc, it's still a solid 30-40%
>> slower than current dmd(with optimization flags, obv.)
>
>
> How did you build it? This is especially important given that DDMD straight
> from the repo does not build with LDC right now as it tries to override the
> druntime memory allocation functions, which works only due to the way DMD's
> -lib is implemented.
>
> On a system with 64 GiB RAM, Daniel and I could not measure any performance
> difference to the C++ version when building the Phobos unittests.
>

Because 64GiB is such a commodity nowadays. :-)