D compiles fast, right? Right??

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 04/03/2018 05:53 PM, bachmeier wrote:
> On Tuesday, 3 April 2018 at 21:17:35 UTC, Rubn wrote:
>> I feel that's probably the case for any comparisons across two 
>> languages, you are going to have a person that is more knowledgeable 
>> in one language than another. Mistakes are going to be made, but I 
>> think it should be blatantly obvious that one language is going to 
>> compiler slower if it is compiling all the unittests for a library 
>> compared to one that isn't. That's just blatant bias against D, not a 
>> mistake from misunderstanding Go.
> 
> Yeah, I don't understand that either. Unit tests can be arbitrarily 
> large, so no matter how fast the compiler, it would always be possible 
> to make it take longer than any other language.

Exactly, which is why I'm insisting this - and not compiler 
benchmarking, let alone idle chattaroo in the forums - is where we need 
to hit. What we have here, ladies and gentlemen, is a high-impact 
preapproved item of great general interest. Shall we start the auction?