dmd makes D appear slow

[Shachar Shemesh via Digitalmars-d]

On 31/05/15 02:08, Manu via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On 31 May 2015 at 04:39, Shachar Shemesh via Digitalmars-d
> <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
>> On 30/05/15 11:00, Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> When he says Windows, he means MSVC, gcc backend will never support
>>> interfacing that ABI (at least I see no motivation as of writing).
>>>
>> I thought that's what MINGW was. A gcc backend that interfaces with the
>> Windows ABI. Isn't it?
>
> If your program is isolated, MinGW is fine. Great even!
> But the Windows ecosystem is built around Microsoft's COFF formatted
> libraries (as produced by Visual Studio), and most Windows libs that I
> find myself working with are closed-source, or distributed as
> pre-built binaries.
Again, sorry for my ignorance. I just always assumed that the main 
difference between mingw and cygwin is precisely that: that mingw 
executables are PE formatted, and can import PE DLLs (such as the Win32 
DLLs themselves).

If that is not the case, what is the mingw format? How does it allow you 
to link in the Win32 DLLs if it does not support COFF?

Shachar