Speeding up importing Phobos files

[Adam D. Ruppe]

BTW

dmd2/src/phobos$ time cat `find . | grep -E '\.d$'` > catted.d

real    0m0.015s
user    0m0.006s
sys     0m0.009s

$ wc catted.d
   319707  1173911 10889167 catted.d


If it were the filesystem at fault, shouldn't that I/O heavy 
operation take a significant portion of the dmd runtime?

Yes, I know the kernel is caching these things and deferring 
writes and so on. But it does that for dmd too! Blaming the 
filesystem doesn't pass the prima facie test, at least on Linux. 
Maybe Windows is different, I will try that tomorrow, but I 
remain exceedingly skeptical.