Is dmd fast?

[Icecream Bob via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 22 June 2016 at 14:11:12 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote:
> On Wednesday, 22 June 2016 at 13:46:50 UTC, qznc wrote:
>> ...
>
> Including scripting languages in that example is unfair as they 
> only lex the file.
>
> Right away you can tell that "Hello World" is a poor example of 
> fast compile times because GCC is near the top; (as you 
> probably know) large Cpp projects can have half hour to an hour 
> long build times. Large projects are way faster to compile 
> using dmd.

 From a marketing standpoint, you want simple things to compile 
fast. Ain't nobody gonna create big applications in multiple 
languages to see which one compiles faster. They will most likely 
go a little bit further than hello world, if they know what they 
are doing. Testing things that shows lexing speed, linking speed, 
etc, but they aren't gonna do complicated stuff.