D compiles fast, right? Right??

[Stefan Koch]

On Monday, 2 April 2018 at 12:35:03 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
> On Sunday, 1 April 2018 at 02:40:26 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 3/30/2018 1:17 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> Could be faster.
>>
>> It's been a fair amount of time since somebody has done 
>> profiling of dmd. It needs to be done. There's probably plenty 
>> of low hanging fruit. Speculating about why it is slow is 
>> pointless without data.
>
> I profiled it as soon as I had the numbers. I didn't bother to 
> mention it because I thought I'd just work on making dmd faster 
> instead.
>
> I seem to be the one who feels the most pain by this, it'd be 
> silly of me to expect anyone else to work on it.

Making certain parts of the compiler faster is also on my agenda.
Feel free to talk to me anytime :)