[ offtopic ] About the "C++ Compilation Speed" article on DrDobbs

[SomeDude]

On Monday, 4 June 2012 at 16:03:34 UTC, Victor Vicente de 
Carvalho wrote:
> Walter:
>
> On this publication from 2010 
> http://www.drdobbs.com/blogs/cpp/228701711 you gave some 
> insight and promised a follow up on what design decisions are 
> important to make a compiler fast. Did you happen to have 
> written it?

They are implemented in the D compiler as part of the language 
design (modules, no preprocessor, avoidance of ambiguities), and 
I believe the C++ compiler is faster than most others, although 
the language doesn"t allow many optimizations, due to the 
preprocessor and the numerous syntaxic ambiguities.