Red Hat's issues in considering the D language

[Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 21 December 2016 at 21:12:07 UTC, Jerry wrote:
> Any other backend would be better. DMD with -O takes over an 
> hour for my project to compile. In comparison LDC with -O3 
> takes less than a minute and produces a faster binary. It 
> doesn't really make sense to increase the workload maintaining 
> 2-3 different compilers when D is already lacking manpower.

A 60:1 speedup? I've never heard of that big of a difference 
before. Especially since LDC is typically slower to compile, even 
on massive code bases like Weka's.

Could you please file a bug with some details?