Increasing D Compiler Speed by Over 75%

[Don]

On Thursday, 25 July 2013 at 18:03:22 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1j1i30/increasing_the_d_compiler_speed_by_over_75/


I just reported this compile speed killer:
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=10716

It has a big impact on some of the tests in the DMD test suite. 
It might also be responsible for a significant part of the 
compilation time of Phobos, since array literals tend to be 
widely used inside unittest functions.