On Monday, 5 February 2018 at 04:07:56 UTC, welkam wrote:
2. DMD just doesn't produce fast code compared to other modern
compilers. It's a shame LDC or GDC isn't the default D
compiler.
For the core team improving DMD codegen is not a priority
Indeed it's not, it's understood that it's too much effort,
though we sometimes pick low-hanging fruits. Mostly dmd's backend
is kept because it's still ~1.5-2x faster to produce debug
binaries.
In case you're not on Windows, the install.sh script is a fairly
easy way to switch compilers.
curl -fsS https://dlang.org/install.sh | bash -s dmd
curl -fsS https://dlang.org/install.sh | bash -s ldc
curl -fsS https://dlang.org/install.sh | bash -s gdc
