Official compiler

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On Thursday, 25 February 2016 at 02:48:24 UTC, Walter Bright 
wrote:
> On 2/24/2016 6:05 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
>> I've also heard from big users who want the performance more 
>> than compile time
>> and hit difficulty in build scaling..
>
> I know that performance trumps all for many users. But we can 
> have both - dmd and ldc/gdc.
>
> My point is that compile speed is a valuable and distinguishing 
> feature of D. It's one that I have to constantly maintain, or 
> it bit rots away. It's one that people regularly dismiss as 
> unimportant. Sometimes it seems I'm the only one working on the 
> compiler who cares about it.
>
> For comparison, C++ compiles like a pig, I've read that Rust 
> compiles like a pig, and Go makes a lot of hay for compiling 
> fast.

Maybe in the future, when ldc/gdc catches up versions with dmd, 
we can combine them into a bundle for downloads? Then new people 
can just download the compiler bundle and run dmd or ldc/gdc as 
they like.