Is dmd fast?

[Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 22 June 2016 at 19:25:13 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote:
> So if linking is slow, then compilation is slow.

But, 1/3 second isn't slow... I don't feel compilation is slow 
until it takes more like 5 seconds. Certainly, 1/3s is noticable 
(if you do a hello world with printf instead of writeln you can 
feel the difference btw), but it isn't important.

D compile speed typically *scales* better than the competition. 
Instead of chasing the 100ms in hello world, it tackles the 
10000ms of a real project.