How does D’s ‘import’ work?

[rempas]

On Monday, 19 June 2023 at 12:48:26 UTC, Cecil Ward wrote:
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> If I have sources to all the library routines, not libraries or 
> .obj files. I am simply completely ignorant about the D tools 
> including DUB, so off to do some reading. I’ve just been seeing 
> how good LDC and GDC are, and the answer is extremely, 
> especially LDC, which perhaps has a slight edge in code 
> generation quality. I haven’t looked at AAarch64 code yet, only 
> AMD64. Very impressed with all the work!

Of course, DMD uses it's own custom backend so it's only fair to 
not expect for it to have the same runtime performance and 
optimizations as the other two compilers than use LLVM and GCC. 
If you only use x86_64, DMD will be amazing for your debug cycles!