What are the prominent upsides of the D programming language?

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On Saturday, 26 September 2020 at 17:34:44 UTC, Per Nordlöw wrote:
> On Saturday, 26 September 2020 at 07:32:20 UTC, tastyminerals 
> wrote:
>> I would also add that Julia is very memory hungry and in some 
>> cases outdoes Java in this regard. I have hard time 
>> understanding why Julia gets so much praise on HN despite such 
>> glaring performance flaws... The only thing I can imagine why 
>> ppl wave performance arguments off is great and growing 
>> Julia's ecosystem.
>
> Yes, Julia is unreasonable memory hungry. I had to disable it 
> for inputs above 5000 functions in
>
> https://github.com/nordlow/compiler-benchmark
>
> For details on the superiority of D's compilation speed see
>
> https://github.com/nordlow/compiler-benchmark#conclusions-from-sample-run-shown-below

Just want to confirm: it's the Julia *compiler* itself that is 
memory hungry, not the generated app that is memory hungry?