Comparing compilation time of random code in C++, D, Go, Pascal and Rust

[Johan Engelen via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Thursday, 27 October 2016 at 06:43:15 UTC, Sebastien Alaiwan 
wrote:
>
> From the article:
>> Surprise: C++ without optimizations is the fastest! A few 
>> other surprises: Rust also seems quite competitive here. D 
>> starts out comparatively slow."
>
> These benchmarks seem to support the idea that it's not the 
> parsing which is slow, but the code generation phase. If code 
> generation/optimization is the bottleneck, a "ccache-for-D" 
> ("dcache"?) tool might be very beneficial.

See 
https://johanengelen.github.io/ldc/2016/09/17/LDC-object-file-caching.html

I also have a working dcache implementation in LDC but it still 
needs some polishing.

-Johan