Is dmd fast?

[Adrian Matoga via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 22 June 2016 at 14:28:19 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> BTW this more measures linker speed than compiler. dmd -c -o- 
> just runs the compiler and skips filesystem output... it'd be 
> pretty fast and if there's similar options for other compilers 
> (gcc has -c too at least) it might be better for small programs.
>
> Larger programs I think is fair to include the link step, since 
> it should be less a percentage there and you do need to run it 
> anyway.

Yeah, you do need to run it anyway, even if you build 
incrementally.
It'd be a lie to omit the link time when the compiler actively 
works to make linker's job harder by inflating the symbol table 
to tens or hundreds of megabytes.