On Friday, 23 February 2018 at 20:15:12 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
Now that I got your attention:
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18511
tl;dr: A trivial piece of code, written as ostensibly
"idiomatic D" with std.algorithm and std.range templates,
compiles *an order of magnitude* slower than the equivalent
hand-written loop. The way the compiler compiles templates
needs some serious improvement.
(And this is why our current fast-fast-fast slogan annoys me so
much. One can argue that it's misleading advertising, given
that what's considered "idiomatic D", using features like
templates and generic code that's highly-touted as D's strong
points, compiles a whole order of magnitude slower than C-style
D. Makes me cringe every time I hear "fast code, fast". Our
old slogan is a much more accurate description of the current
state of things.)
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This particular slowdown happens because there are somehow
depdencies on std.format.format which is instantiated.
Which has a ton of dependencies itself.
