Is dmd fast?

[Nordlöw via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 23 June 2016 at 07:14:02 UTC, Nordlöw wrote:
> The GNU gold linker should be the default on newer 
> distributions.

It seems the non-gold version is the default, on my Ubuntu 16.04.

It would be nice to automate the step of choosing the fast 
gold-version, so I don't have to bother with this anymore.

What about adding a flag to DMD that overrides the default name 
for the linker from `ld` to `ld.gold`?