Backend nearly entirely converted to D

[welkam]

On Wednesday, 7 November 2018 at 14:39:55 UTC, Joakim wrote:
>
> I don't know why you think that would matter: I'm using the 
> same compilers to build each DMD version and comparing the 
> build times as the backend was translated to D

What did you compared is whether clang or DMD compiles code 
faster not whether D code compiles faster than C++. To check that 
you should compile both C++ and D with the same backend.