DMD compilation speed

[deadalnix via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 31 March 2015 at 04:56:13 UTC, Daniel Murphy wrote:
> I've used D's GC with DDMD.  It works*, but you're trading 
> better memory usage for worse allocation speed.  It's quite 
> possible we could add a switch to ddmd to enable the GC.
>

That is not accurate. For small programs, yes. For anything non 
trivial, the amount of memory in the working is set become so big 
that I doubt there is any advantage of doing so.