DMD compilation speed

[deadalnix via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 31 March 2015 at 00:54:08 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> On 3/30/15 4:28 PM, w0rp wrote:
>> I sometimes think DMD's memory should be... garbage collected. 
>> I used
>> the forbidden phrase!
>
> Compiler workloads are a good candidate for GC. -- Andrei

Yes, compiler to perform significantly better with GC than with 
other memory management strategy. Ironically, I think that 
weighted a bit too much in favor of GC for language design in the 
general case.