On Wednesday, 21 December 2016 at 23:33:50 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
Definitely. It is almost always the case that building a
program with dmd is much faster than building with gdc or ldc.
The tradeoff is that gdc and ldc do a much better job
optimizing the resultant binary. So, with dmd, you get fast
compilation but a somewhat slower binary, whereas with gdc and
ldc, you get slow compilation but a faster binary.
If anyone is seeing dmd compile anything significantly more
slowly than gdc or ldc, then dmd has a bug, and it should be
reported (though reducing the code to something reportable can
be entertaining; fortunately, dustmite can be a big help with
that).
- Jonathan M Davis
That is very true for regular build, but not especially for
optimized builds.
