Is dmd fast?

[deadalnix via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 22 June 2016 at 13:46:50 UTC, qznc wrote:
> Walter and we as a community often claim that dmd is fast as in 
> "compiles quickly". Go also claims this. Rust does not. They 
> even state that compilation speed is one of the big tasks they 
> are working on.
>
> From the general sentiment, I would expect that dmd performs on 
> the level of Go and Rust being slower.
>
> Now, D as a language supports arbitrary compile-time 
> computation so dmd can be arbitrarily slow. We need to look at 
> the benchmark carefully. I started with the canonical Hello 
> World. Here are some numbers:
>
> Dash         0:00:00.002366
> Bash         0:00:00.002474
> TCC          0:00:00.007044
> Python2      0:00:00.009881
> Python3      0:00:00.015547
> GCC          0:00:00.028578
> Go           0:00:00.149691
> Rust         0:00:00.212053
> RDMD         0:00:00.275884
> Haskell      0:00:00.310539
> DMD          0:00:00.311102
> Java         0:00:00.596517
> Scala        0:00:01.917606
> X10 Java     0:00:02.484673
> X10 C++      0:00:03.887826
>
> Hm, Rust is faster than dmd? Go is roughly twice as fast as dmd?
>
> Destroy!
>
> But run your own numbers first: 
> https://github.com/qznc/hello-benchmark ;)

You methodology is flawed. You are essentially measuring link 
time against the standard lib.