dmd makes D appear slow

[Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d]

On 6/3/15 3:50 AM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> On Wednesday, 3 June 2015 at 07:05:37 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
>> Project size is irrelevant here. I had 500 line C++ project that took
>> 10 minutes to compile (hello boost::spirit). It is impossible for C++
>> to compile faster than D by design. Any time it seems so you either
>> aren't comparing same thing or get misinformed. Or do straightforward
>> separate compilation.
>
> Even C.
>
> Our project, back when I was doing C in the early 2000's, a "make clean
> all" took around one hour.

It might be possible the processor/RAM constraints were different in 
2000 than they are now :)

-Steve