Is dmd fast?

[Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 22 June 2016 at 19:20:42 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
> You methodology is flawed. You are essentially measuring link 
> time against the standard lib.

As someone else in the thread alluded to, people don't care about 
the nuance, and it's not particularly important. Linking is part 
of the compilation process that people have to wait for before 
their program can run. So if linking is slow, then compilation is 
slow.