Is there any language that native-compiles faster than D?

Jacob Carlborg doob at me.com
Wed Aug 26 11:49:06 UTC 2020


On Thursday, 20 August 2020 at 20:50:25 UTC, Per Nordlöw wrote:
> After having evaluated the compilation speed of D compared to 
> other languages at
>
>     https://github.com/nordlow/compiler-benchmark
>
> I wonder; is there any language that compiles to native code 
> anywhere nearly as fast or faster than D, except C?

You could add Crystal [1] as well for completeness. It uses LLVM 
as its backend, so it might not be fast.

BTW, I see that you download DMD from dlang.org. The binaries at 
dlang.org are compiled with DMD itself. You should compile DMD 
yourself using LDC, with the appropriate flags. It will give you 
a boost, perhaps 30%.

[1] https://crystal-lang.org

--
/Jacob Carlborg


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