Official compiler

[David Nadlinger via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 25 February 2016 at 23:06:43 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> Are there any low-hanging fruit left that could make dmd faster?

A big one would be overhauling the template mangling scheme so it 
does not generate mangled names a few hundred kilo (!) bytes in 
size anymore for code that uses templates and voldemort types. 
For an example, see 
http://forum.dlang.org/post/n96k3g$ka5$1@digitalmars.com, 
although the problem can get much worse in big code bases. I've 
seen just the handling of the mangle strings (generation, ...) 
making up a significant part of the time profile.

  — David