Are these bencmarks recent and real?

[jfondren]

On Monday, 30 August 2021 at 13:12:09 UTC, rempas wrote:
> Just trying to compile a sample basic gtk-d project (including 
> the libraries themselves) using ldc2 and optimization "-Os" and 
> seeing how much time this takes, I want to ask if the 
> benchmarks found 
> [here](https://github.com/nordlow/compiler-benchmark) about 
> ldc2 are real. Again seeing the gtk-d project taking so much 
> time, It's hard to believe that ldc2 compiles faster that tcc 
> and go. However, this test probably doesn't use optimizations 
> but still.... Ayn thoughts?

You can see how recent they are, and yeah they're real, but it's 
a very specific artificial benchmark and there's a lot more to 
say about compilation speeds about the various languages. That D 
can compile amazingly fast can be shown just by building dmd 
itself. But unlike go, D also gives you a bunch of tools that you 
can use to make compile times take a lot longer. Likewise you 
could say that D can make just as careful use of memory as a C 
program, but that D unlike C also gives you a bunch of tools that 
you can put towards much less careful use of memory.