"The total size of a static array cannot exceed 16Mb."

[naryl]

On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:30:40 +0300, Anders F Björklund <afb at algonet.se>  
wrote:

> Christopher Wright wrote:
>
>>> Yes, I am _actually_ advocating the development of a different  
>>> backend, or linker, or object format etc. over the release of D2.0.   
>>> Yes, I am actually more interested in that.
>>  There's GDC. Walter could make that the default branch (and actually  
>> mentioned that as a possibility at the conference). Though one of the  
>> benefits of D is a fast compiler, and I don't know how much faster gdc  
>> is compared to, say, gcc.
>
> It usually clocks in somewhere inbetween gcc and g++, but I'm sure
> that says more about the language complexity than about the compilers...
>
> Not sure how LLVM does for speed, as I've only used it through GCC.
> But I think the speed-above-everything DMD and OPTLINK still "win".
>
> --anders

It is somewhat outdated but still:  
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/1.0/cppstrings.html

There is a comparison at the end.