dmd makes D appear slow

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 5/29/15 12:13 PM, weaselcat wrote:
> In nearly every benchmark I see D in, the default compiler used is dmd
> which runs computationally intense tasks 4-5x+ slower than GDC/LDC
>
> example of a random blog post I found:
> http://vaskir.blogspot.com/2015/04/computing-cryptography-hashes-rust-vs-f.html

One problem here is pointed by the blogger: "I tried to compile with 
LDC2 and failed (windows 7 x64): ..."

Can he be helped?


Andrei