teething troubles

[bearophile via Digitalmars-d-learn]

Dean:

>> dmd compiles very quickly, but to compile writeln D has to 
>> digest a good amount of Phobos code.
>
> Are the reasons for this similar to why C++ STL is not an object
> code library ?

The reasons for the large amount of code compiled for a writeln 
are that: writeln is more powerful, Phobos modules import each 
other a lot. And several parts of Phobos are not compiled because 
there are templates everywhere. Take a look at Phobos sources and 
you will see.

Bye,
bearophile