On Tuesday, 10 December 2013 at 21:05:53 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
At the least, it'll compile a lot faster!
Small C programs compile a *lot* faster than small D programs
that use Phobos.
import std.stdio; == add half a second to your compile time.
$ time dmd hellod.d
real 0m0.780s # YIKES!
user 0m0.649s
sys 0m0.102s
$ time gcc helloc.c
real 0m0.148s # not bad
user 0m0.095s
sys 0m0.039s
yikes, even doing printf in D is slow nowadays
$ time dmd hellod.d
real 0m0.290s # good but not great
user 0m0.212s
sys 0m0.058s
Larger D programs do better, of course, at least if you compile
all the files at once (and don't use so much CTFE that it starts
thrashing the swap file).
