Any takers for http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=9673?

[Vladimir Panteleev]

On Sunday, 10 March 2013 at 13:40:04 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
> My usual estimate is about twice as fast,

That's still a huge difference. For one compiler to beat another 
200% at something that isn't a microbenchmark isn't something you 
hear about often.

> but it depends on what you compile. It doesn't have a huge 
> effect on running the test suite, my guess is that the runtime 
> initialization for the MS build is slightly slower than for the 
> dmc build, and there are a large number of small files to 
> compile there.

But we're looking at the combined compilation numbers!

> Also, it's quite difficult to get accurate and reproducable 
> benchmarking numbers these days, with the (mobile) processors 
> continuously changing their performance.

You don't need an accurate benchmark to notice something is about 
3 times as fast as something else....