Is dmd fast?

[Daniel Kozak via Digitalmars-d]

Dne 23.6.2016 v 19:24 Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d napsal(a):

> On 06/23/2016 10:36 AM, ketmar wrote:
>> as of the linker itsef, on most systems /usr/bin/ld is just a symling to
>> either ld.bfd or ld.gold. we can include some notion in DMD
>> documentation regarding to that.
>
> On my Ubuntu, /usr/bin/ld -> x86_64-linux-gnu-ld. What does that mean? 
> -- Andrei
[kozzi at samuel ~]$ ld -v
GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.26.0.20160501
[kozzi at samuel ~]$ ld.gold -v
GNU gold (GNU Binutils 2.26.0.20160501) 1.11