Is dmd fast?

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 06/23/2016 01:33 PM, David Nadlinger wrote:
> On Thursday, 23 June 2016 at 17:24:34 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On my Ubuntu, /usr/bin/ld -> x86_64-linux-gnu-ld. What does that mean?
>> -- Andrei
>
> `ld --version` should clear that up. ;)

GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Ubuntu) 2.26

So how do I get and install gold?


Thanks,

Andrei