dmd makes D appear slow

[Atila Neves via Digitalmars-d]

> There are lots of features in D, that C++ does not have, that 
> will make separate compilation and partial 
> evaluation/incomplete types difficult. So C++ is faster than D 
> by design, even when the compiler isn't.

I've tried to parse that last sentence a few times and I'm not 
sure what you mean. A theoretical compiler doesn't matter; what 
actual compilers do does. The empirical fact is that C++ is 
slower to compile than D (AFAIK C++ compiles slower than 
everything that isn't Scala). If you have a benchmarch that shows 
C++ compiling faster than D, please share it.

Atila