dmd makes D appear slow

[Dan Olson via Digitalmars-d]

ketmar <ketmar at ketmar.no-ip.org> writes:

> yes, i remember lightning fast compile times with turbo pascal. yet the 
> code it produced was really awful: it was even unable to fold constants 
> sometimes!

I remember it being in a single DOS .COM (was it TURBO.COM?) only about
40k which included the editor, compiler, and libraries.  It was the
coolest thing for PC's at the time.  I might even have a floppy with it
on it :-)