D compiles fast, right? Right??

[Jack Stouffer]

On Wednesday, 4 April 2018 at 20:29:19 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote:
> On Wednesday, 4 April 2018 at 20:04:04 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 4 April 2018 at 01:08:48 UTC, Andrei 
>> Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> 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?
>>
>> Are you aware of this PR? 
>> https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/8124
>
> This is but a layer of paint over the real problem.
> Unneeded Dependencies. Programming should not be a game of 
> jenga.
> Piling things on top of other things rarely works out.

I encourage you to leave a review on the PR then with corrective 
measures.