Is dmd fast?

[Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 22 June 2016 at 13:46:50 UTC, qznc wrote:
> RDMD         0:00:00.275884
> DMD          0:00:00.311102


Since rdmd is just a script wrapper around dmd, it shouldn't 
actually be faster.

BTW this more measures linker speed than compiler. dmd -c -o- 
just runs the compiler and skips filesystem output... it'd be 
pretty fast and if there's similar options for other compilers 
(gcc has -c too at least) it might be better for small programs.

Larger programs I think is fair to include the link step, since 
it should be less a percentage there and you do need to run it 
anyway.