dmd makes D appear slow

[Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 29 May 2015 at 19:17:14 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 5/29/15 12:13 PM, weaselcat wrote:
>> In nearly every benchmark I see D in, the default compiler
>> used is dmd
>> which runs computationally intense tasks 4-5x+ slower than
>> GDC/LDC
>>
>> example of a random blog post I found: 
>> http://vaskir.blogspot.com/2015/04/computing-cryptography-hashes-rust-vs-f.html
>
> One problem here is pointed by the blogger: "I tried to compile 
> with LDC2 and failed (windows 7 x64): ..."
>
> Can he be helped?

http://vaskir.blogspot.com/2015/04/computing-cryptography-hashes-rust-vs-f.html?showComment=1432925658409#c6228383399074019471