dmd makes D appear slow

[weaselcat via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 3 June 2015 at 11:25:50 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> On Wednesday, 3 June 2015 at 11:06:39 UTC, weaselcat wrote:
>> it can get even better if you properly modularize your 
>> projects instead of having 1-2 files that build slow, which 
>> causes a lot of waiting.
>
> Yes, sure. You can probably get the same build speeds as with C 
> if you organize your code in a particular way or shy away from 
> certain patterns.
>
> What I was talking about was the language, meaning that you 
> don't write your code to give a boost in compilation speed. 
> Clearly possible, but if you use third party frameworks… then 
> you're out of luck.
>
> An analogy: SQL isn't particularly expressive, but the 
> limitations of the language makes it possible to execute it 
> bottom-up. NOSQL engines are even less expressive, but can be 
> even more easily distributed.

ah yes, those famous fast C build times.
Excuse me while I go take half an hour to build GDB.