Is dmd fast?

[ketmar via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 23 June 2016 at 13:32:35 UTC, Daniel Kozak wrote:
> Or on linux use ld.gold instead of ld.bfd. Using .so instead of 
> .a has another problem with speed. Application link against 
> static phobos lib is much faster than against dynamic version.

either i didn't understood you right, or... my tests shows that 
ld.gold is indeed faster than ld.bfd (as it should be), but 
linking against libphobos2.so is still faster in both linkers 
than linking against libphobos2.a. it is ~100 ms faster, for both 
linkers.

and if you meant that resulting application speed is different... 
tbh, i didn't noticed that at all. i did no benchmarks, but i 
have videogame engine, for example, and sound engine with pure D 
vorbis decoding, and some other apps, and never noticed any 
significant speed/CPU load difference between .a and .so versions.