On Friday, 22 December 2017 at 11:39:48 UTC, user1234 wrote:
If benchmarks based on DMD are published, the article will be subject to the criticism that is that the shorter build time is due to the optimization pass, since it's known not to be super deep in DMD backend.
Well, Go folks don't shy away from praising their compilation speed, but the situation is very similar there: Go compiles fast because it doesn't optimize the code. Last time I checked their compiler had zero options mentioning optimization, it's like "always debug build".
