D Lang installation on Windows, dependency on Visual Studio?

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On Monday, 14 November 2016 at 16:59:56 UTC, Nick Sabalausky 
wrote:
> On 11/14/2016 08:44 AM, Patrick Schluter wrote:
>>
>> have their windows system partition on a smallish SSD.
>
> Well, in all honestly, that IS going to cause problems 
> regardless. The larger SSDs are fine (enough) for a phone, but 
> for a PC that's used for anything more than the average joe's 
> web/email/word combo, SSDs are still far too small.
>
> I still have an "old fashioned" HDD-only in my PC (a laptop): 
> dirt-cheap: <$100 for 1TB (try to find an SSD that remotely 
> compares), and the ONLY time I ever have speed issues in either 
> Win or Lin is when I'm running far too much crap and start 
> hitting virtual memory swapping (or when some badly coded 
> program soaks up all the CPU recourses, but SSDs cant help with 
> that anyway).

In 2005 a 250Gb magnetic HDD costed the same as nowadays 250Gb 
SSD.