Is dmd fast?

[Brad Anderson via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 23 June 2016 at 17:57:33 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> 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

Martin covered it here: 
https://code.dawg.eu/reducing-vibed-turnaround-time-part-1-faster-linking.html