D compiles fast, right? Right??

[Seb]

On Friday, 30 March 2018 at 16:12:44 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
> Fast code fast, they said. It'll be fun, they said. Here's a D 
> file:
>
>     import std.path;
>
>
> Yep, that's all there is to it. Let's compile it on my laptop:
>
>     /tmp % time dmd -c  foo.d
>     dmd -c foo.d  0.12s user 0.02s system 98% cpu 0.139 total

We had a recent discussion about this:

https://github.com/dlang/phobos/pull/5916

tl;dr:
- e.g. all unicode tables are probably imported and CTFE-ed 
(that's a huge chunk)
- Vladimir has written an excellent tool (-> 
https://github.com/CyberShadow/DBuildStat)