D compiles fast, right? Right??

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Tuesday, April 03, 2018 21:08:48 Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d 
wrote:
> 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?

Steven already said somewhere in here that he's planning to work on this
during the dconf hackathon. So, at least one person has stepped forward and
said that they'll look into it.

- Jonathan M Davis