Compilation times and idiomatic D code

[jmh530 via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 5 July 2017 at 20:32:08 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote:
>
> Yes there is.
> Rainer Schuetze is quite close to a solution. Which reduces the 
> symbol-name bloat significantly.
> See https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/5855
>
>

A table in the comments [1] shows a significant reduction in 
bloat when compiling phobos unit tests. However, it shows a 
slight increase in build time. I would have expected a decrease. 
Any idea why that is?

[1] https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/5855#issuecomment-310653542