Is dmd fast?

[ketmar via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 22 June 2016 at 19:25:13 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote:
> On Wednesday, 22 June 2016 at 19:20:42 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
>> You methodology is flawed. You are essentially measuring link 
>> time against the standard lib.
>
> As someone else in the thread alluded to, people don't care 
> about the nuance, and it's not particularly important. Linking 
> is part of the compilation process that people have to wait for 
> before their program can run. So if linking is slow, then 
> compilation is slow.

you can dramatically decrease linking times by switching from 
libphobos2.a to libphobos2.so.