dmd makes D appear slow

[weaselcat via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 29 May 2015 at 19:01:18 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 06:50:02PM +0000, Dicebot via 
> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> On Friday, 29 May 2015 at 18:38:20 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>> >This will probably offend some people, but I think LDC/GDC 
>> >should be
>> >the default download on dlang.org, and dmd should be provided 
>> >as an
>> >alternative for those who want the latest language version 
>> >and don't
>> >mind the speed compromise.
>> 
>> I did make LDC default compiler used in Arch but now people are
>> unhappy with increased compile times so I may need to revert 
>> it back
>> :)
>
> Can't please 'em all... According to Walter, many D users want 
> fast
> compile times, and aren't as concerned about performance of the
> generated code. But from this thread's OP, it seems there's 
> another
> group of users who don't care about fast compile times but want 
> the
> generated code to squeeze every last drop of performance from 
> their
> CPUs.
>
> So I guess we should be equally recommending all 3 compilers, 
> with a
> note to help people choose their compiler depending on their 
> needs.
>
>
> T

I think it might be worth investigating why LDC/GDC are slower 
than dmd when compiling non-optimized builds. This seems like 
something that would be easier to solve than getting dmd up to 
the same performance level as LDC/GDC.
Bye,