Why C++ compiles slowly

[Simen kjaeraas]

bearophile <bearophileHUGS at lycos.com> wrote:

> Andrej Mitrovic:
>> You could do OOP in HLA (of course nobody treats that as a real
>> assembler :p. But the book that comes with it is great.).
>
> I may like to see the built-in asm of D replaced by HLA :-)

But why? Could you not simply drop in and out of assembly and use
D for flow-control and the like?

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Simen